nvidia quadro nvs 140 and etch

[Anders Lennartsson <anders.lennartsson@foi.se>]

Is it difficult (possible?) to backport the nvidia 100.14.19 packages
to etch?

I have noted some changes in the packaging, placing and naming of some
files that is evident in the pre/post inst and rm scripts. Anything
else to take into consideration?


Background is that I'm helping a collegue with a new Dell D830 laptop
which has a nVidia NVS Quadro 140 graphics card. The version of
nvidia-graphics-drivers in etch does not support this card (and vesa
seems to fail to, at least in the native resolution).

The documentation to nvidia's drivers says it needs xorg >= 6.7 or
so. But the Debian/sid packages at version 100.14.19 requires xorg >
2:1.4 which corresponds to xorg 7.4 (I think). Etch ships with 2:1.1.*
corresponding to 7.1. So the nvidia drivers should be usable with etch.



Anders