[Mageia-dev] nvidia

[Anssi Hannula]

07.04.2012 14:17, Thomas Backlund kirjoitti:
> 07.04.2012 03:41, Pascal Terjan skrev:
>> Hi,
>>
>> regarding http://check.mageia.org/cauldron/tmb/dependencies.html do you
>> know if nvidia173/kmod-nvidia173 and nvidia-96xx/kmod-nvidia96xx should
>> be obsoleted by something (nouveau?)?
>>
> 
> Well,
> 
> kmod-nvidia96xx/173 and the matching nvidia*kernel*latest can simply be
> nuked from the repos as they are Cauldron only packages
> 
> So it leaves theese:
> dkms-nvidia96xx
> nvidia96xx-devel
> nvidia96xx-doc-html
> x11-driver-video-nvidia96xx
> 
> dkms-nvidia173
> nvidia173-cuda
> nvidia173-devel
> nvidia173-doc-html
> x11-driver-video-nvidia173
> 
> I guess the dkms-nvidia96xx/173 packages should be obsoleted by kernel,
> and the x11-driver-video-nvidia96xx/173 should be obsoleted by
> x11-driver-video-nouveau.

Either that or add conflicts to X11 server, I guess.

> Hmmm, do we need triggers to handle gl.conf for nvidia like we need for
> fglrx ?
> 
> Anssi, wdyt ?

harddrake_service should already change the driver if ldetect-lst
indicates so.


>> I don't know anything about nvidia but internet says 173 and 96xx are
>> not compatible with x11-server 1.11
>> Compatibility with 1.10 was added in the latest version, in August last
>> year, 6 months after 1.10 was released, and a week before 1.11 was
>> released. It has now been more than 6 months since 1.11 was released,
>> 1.12 was released last month, so should we still expect 1.11 (and recent
>> kernels) support to happen?
> 
> It does not really seem like nVidia will support them, but I can be wrong...
> 
> Anssi ?

I don't have any additional information, but I wouldn't rule new
releases out, there have been long delays previously as well...

-- 
Anssi Hannula