On 2010-09-17 20:15, Marvin Renich wrote:
* Filipus Klutiero<chea...@gmail.com> [100917 01:45]:
Heh. It must have been a long time ago if I ever had enough trust in
NVIDIA to ask them for anything, in particular to update their Linux
driver for 10 year old cards. Actually, I have no card that only
works with 71xx, I'm just reporting this package is broken so it
can't get back in testing.
Pretty much the only thing you can do is to request the removal of
these packages; see
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-nvidia-devel/2009-September/001925.html
The situation has partly changed since then, partly thanks to your
work. The first paragraph should now read:
The following packages are broken in unstable and testing:
nvidia-graphics-legacy-96xx-modules-amd64,
nvidia-graphics-legacy-96xx-modules-i386
My kids' computer is a Dell Dimension 4500 (Pentium 4) with an nVidia
GeForce FX 5500, supported by nvidia-glx-legacy-71xx, and they enjoy
playing games that require accelerated graphics. I had held off
upgrading xorg-* because of the lack of support for this card. I
recently upgraded because I thought the new nvidia-glx-legacy-71xx would
support it, not knowing that it didn't support the new xorg packages.
If nVidia doesn't provide an updated legacy-71xx, I will have to either
downgrade xorg (not desired) or purchase a new video card.
No, 1.0.76** didn't drop support for FX 5500. Actually, GeForce FX 5500
is supported as far as 173.14.xx.
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