Re: Monitors requiring interlaced video modes with older Nvidia video cards are out of options in wheezy
On 2011-04-24 00:14 +0200, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> There may have been DSFG-freeness concerns about the code as well, but they
> were not the primary motivator for removing the package from testing.
They were. Bug #383465¹ had been ignored for three releases already
which is really too long.
> (Obfuscated code may have driven the X.org developers away from the nv driver
> to the Nouveau driver, though.)
This is probably not the case since nv is still the default driver
upstream, although every major Linux distribution has switched to
nouveau, even Slackware. I don't expect this to change unless nouveau
sees a real release which, with the current attitude of the nouveau
developers, is unlikely to ever happen.
Sven
¹ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=383465
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