Ok, I think the discussion has derailed quite a bit from the original bug report...
Karsten, I can sympathize with you, but to address your concern that the packages are "broken" and that we should be doing better, I'd say that the current nvidia packages in Debian are doing the utmost possible to make installing of the proprietary nvidia drivers as painless as possible (much of it thanks to Andreas, of course). Let me explain what we already have: - current long term / stable releases and supported legacy branches all packaged up in Debian - nvidia-detect, to help users pick the right set of packages to install if they don't already know the status of upstream support for their GPU - integration with both DKMS and module-assistant, as well as pre-built nvidia kernel modules (built from src:nvidia-graphics-modules), in the nvidia packages so that installation is painless - nvidia-xconfig (which is upstream's tool to create nvidia-compatible xorg.conf files), as well as debconf prompts during installation (provided in nvidia-support) that tell you in no uncertain terms how to create nvidia-compatible xorg.conf files - a fairly complex alternatives system that makes sure the appropriate vendor libGL is symlinked and used (so that e.g. users with hybrid GPUs don't end up using the wrong libGL implementation, which is often the result for nvidia optimus / bumblebee users that directly use nvidia's installer). Given the constraints (i.e. the fact that the proprietary nvidia drivers are non-free, can't be installed by default, and how X is configured), I honestly don't know how/where you expect Debian to do better. The packages work (at least, for me, and likely for many other users, given the high popcon count and relatively low number of bugs), and we (as in the pkg-nvidia team...well, mostly Andreas) have done our best to make the entire process as painless as possible. I mean, sure, there could be a bug somewhere that's caused by the packages, but I'm not seeing it. Regards, Vincent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
