Re: Is it possible to get Nvidia 8500GT Vid. card to work with debian stable?

["R. Ramesh" <rramesh@verizon.net>]

> On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 12:24:18AM -0600, R. Ramesh wrote:
> > Per debian package search and apt-cache info the version of Xorg in 
> stable > is 7.1.  Open source nv driver in Xorg 7.1 seem to support 
> only upto > Geforce 7xxx. I want to buy nvidia 8500GT cart and it is 
> based on Geforce > 8xxx. My understanding is that this card is 
> supported by nv driver in Xorg > 7.2. Are there any back port of Xorg 
> 7.2 available for Debian stable/etch > that I could use
> > without having to dist-upgrade to lenny?
>
> Holger Levsen recently posted about this on his blog:
>
> http://layer-acht.org/blog/debian/#1-148
>
> HTH.
>
> Kumar
> --
> Kumar Appaiah,
> 458, Jamuna Hostel,
> Indian Institute of Technology Madras,
> Chennai - 600 036
>  
> **


Thanks. But, unfortunately, it appears that there is no amd64 port in 
http://layer-acht.org/blog/debian/#1-148.

Any idea about amd64 backports, if any?

Regards
Ramesh