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<H1>[Mageia-dev] What's the point of the latest nvidia update?</H1>
<B>AL13N</B>
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<I>Sun Jan 20 23:34:06 CET 2013</I>
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<PRE>Op zondag 20 januari 2013 23:50:16 schreef Thomas Backlund:
><i> Robert Wood skrev 20.1.2013 23:16:
</I>><i> > So you're saying that because v295 has been out a while you feel it's
</I>><i> > stable so you're happy to have that in the official repositories? I can
</I>><i> > kind of understand that, although in the case of nvidia you'd think they
</I>><i> > had already done the bug fixing.
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</I>><i> If that ever would be true...
</I>><i> many times when they add support for new hardware, old support gets
</I>><i> either broken or dropped...
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</I>><i> for example going past 304.x to 310.x or higher drops hardware support
</I>><i> for older hw.
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</I>><i> > Anyway, in the case of the latest nvidia version it certainly does have
</I>><i> > new features, because it supports newer cards. In this case, it's not a
</I>><i> > big thing because it's relatively easy for me to install, but I would
</I>><i> > think that for new users who have modern software you'd really want them
</I>><i> > to have access to it. After all M2 is the latest stable release.
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</I>><i> But yes, this is a thing we need to improve... without breaking
</I>><i> anything in the process...
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</I>><i> The best way for now to get newer drivers is to rebuild the srpm in
</I>><i> cauldron and install that.
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and soonish, we could have (supported) backports, so that people
needing/wanting this can have this one, while the people with older hardware
can keep their things working.
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