Re: Monitors requiring interlaced video modes with older Nvidia video cards are out of options in wheezy

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 04/23/2011 05:14 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> In<[🔎] 1636648964.128495.1303595827920.JavaMail.root@md01.wow.synacor.com>,
> Stephen Powell wrote:
> > I really don't see why nv had to be dropped from the distribution.
>
> It is no longer maintained.  NVidia abandoned it a while ago.  It was still
> maintained by the X.org developers for a while.  However, the Nouveau driver
> reaching some level of usefulness has seen the X.org developers stop
> supporting the nv driver.
>
> Debian testing exists to produce the next stable.  Debian tries to avoid
> including unmaintained software in a stable release.  Unless the nv driver
> gets a maintainer, which seems unlikely, it would need to be dropped from
> testing before the next stable release.  It was dropped as early as possible
> to identify issues and have the most time available to remedy them, either by
> recommending a good migration path or providing the missing functionality.

But OP is correct that nv *works*.  *Everywhere*.

Nouveau, OTOH, *doesn't* work everywhere.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nouveau_2639_flip&num=4

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