nvidia drivers

[John5342]

I assume then that the 177 series for f8 and f9 are going to have a new name
which if my thinking is correct they wont be automatically installed when
they first become available. Will there be any kind of announcement when
they are ready or is there a package name i can look out for? I understand
completely that these things take as long as they take but i wouldn't want
to miss the package when it does arrive.

2008/10/29 Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info>

> On 29.10.2008 19:48, John5342 wrote:
>
>> I noticed that the f10 packages for 177.80 are in the repo. Are there any
>> plans to release f9 packages for the same?
>>
>
> There are plans to provide a second package with the newer drivers; people
> are working on it, but it takes some time.
>
> BTW, the reasons why we didn't update to 177.80 in F8 and F9 is really
> simple: Nvidia dropped support for older cards (the GeForce 5 series iirc)
> in the 177 serries. Hence we'd break all systems that have the driver
> installed and those cards in it if we'd put the 177.80 drivers into the
> repos. That is something a lot of people won#t like ;-)
>
> CU
> knurd
>
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