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dimitar

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Registered: 2011-01-27

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Will there be nvidia-275xx?

Today nvidia released a new driver with "older" version, which is, however, compatible with X.Org 1.11. Does that mean that will have nvidia-275xx package similar to nvidia-173xx?

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Re: Will there be nvidia-275xx?

You could always write a PKGBUILD for it and upload to the AUR.  If a trusted user wants to pick it up, it'll go into [community].

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dimitar

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Re: Will there be nvidia-275xx?

You could always write a PKGBUILD for it and upload to the AUR.  If a trusted user wants to pick it up, it'll go into [community].

Sure, but I wanted to know what the arch packagers intend to do. After all, 275.28 supports xorg-server 1.11, and as far as I understand xorg-server 1.11 has not landed in [extra] yet, only because of it's incompatibility with nvidia-280.

Last edited by dimitar (2011-09-07 21:20:01)

dimitar

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Re: Will there be nvidia-275xx?

Here are the AUR packages. I had to split nvidia-utils into nvidia-utils and opencl-nvidia, since AUR cannot accept two strings in pkgname. These are my first packages, so feel free to add comments and improvement suggestions (although, they should be directed to the nvidia package maintainers, because I copied the PKGBUILDs from [extra]).

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Re: Will there be nvidia-275xx?

i won't do anything with that version. They didn't drop any support from the current driver to do a nvidia-275xx. I don't think that driver will support the future versions of xorg-server 1.11.

Waiting for a new 280.x or 285.x version is the best thing.

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dimitar

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Registered: 2011-01-27

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Re: Will there be nvidia-275xx?

i won't do anything with that version. They didn't drop any support from the current driver to do a nvidia-275xx. I don't think that driver will support the future versions of xorg-server 1.11.

Waiting for a new 280.x or 285.x version is the best thing.

Thanks for the reply! I must admit, that I was really puzzled when I saw this version of the driver and I suppose waiting for 28x.x is the most appropriate thing to do. I'll remove the nvidia-275xx AUR packages when the new version of the nvidia driver lands in [extra].

dimitar

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Re: Will there be nvidia-275xx?

Just for info: it seems that 275xx will actually be a "long-lived branch": http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=122606

stojic

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Registered: 2008-02-24

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Re: Will there be nvidia-275xx?

Thanks for AUR packages , I have problems I suspect are related to nvidia driver on my new system (firefox and nautilus segfaulting randomly when using 280.13) and 275xx seems to work without any issues. I like the idea of a long-lived branch that only receives bug fixes and "safe" new features, so double thumbs up to including it in [extra] (already voted on AUR ).

student975

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Re: Will there be nvidia-275xx?

Just for info: it seems that 275xx will actually be a "long-lived branch": http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=122606

Yes, it is the main idea. We have widely used lts package for kernel. Similarly it is a big sense to have lts variation for other widely used package - nvidia driver

Last edited by student975 (2011-09-17 22:04:37)

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