Re: [Hampshire] xserver-xorg-core 2:1.4-2 conflicts with nvi…

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Author: Alan Pope
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] xserver-xorg-core 2:1.4-2 conflicts with nvidia-glx 1.0.x

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Hi John,

On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 21:08 +0100, john lewis wrote:
> Yeah things will break, but it doesn't happen toooo often*, and if you
> use proprietary drivers you can't then complain it is Debian's
> fault :-)
>


That's a little unfair. The vast majority of problems that I have seen
with the nvidia-glx package are to do with the package management
(incorrect dependencies, no package built for a specific kernel/xorg
version etc) and nothing to do with the closed nature of the driver.

Cheers,
Al.