backporting nvidia to squeeze

Andreas Beckmann debian at abeckmann.de
Sun Nov 6 23:08:40 UTC 2011


Hi Russ,

now that most things have settled, I think time has come to consider
backporting the current nvidia driver to squeeze. In about a week my
last upload series should enter wheezy and we will have a driver there
that supports Xserver 1.11 without slowing down on older cards.
To get a working backport, we need

* glx-alternatives (0.2.0~bpo60+1) - already prepared in SVN

* nvidia-support (???~bpo60+1) - not yet prepared as there may be
translation updates incoming

* nvidia-graphics-drivers (275.36-something)
  I'd like to get 280.13.really.275.36-1 uploaded with a less confusing
  version number 275.36-0~bpo60+1 - would that be OK for a backport?

As backports.d.o doesn't support DM uploads, I'd need your help again to
upload these when the time comes.
Are there more things to be considered for a backport?

Andreas



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