Re: Nvidia Legacy 304xx
On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 11:11 AM, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 2016-12-02 10:57 +0200, David Baron wrote:
>
>> Is this being kicked off Debian?
>
> Depends on whether NVidia releases a version that is compatible with
> Xserver 1.19[1]. I'm afraid this might not happen in time for Stretch.
>
>> Dist-upgrade will remove it for a while now, lists it as installed but not
>> needed, as well.
>> upgrade holds back most all xorg stuff.
>>
>> Problems with kde plasma with both 304xx (works partially) and nouveau
>> (hangs). What would I do now?
>
> Buy a Radeon card? Those seem to work very well with the free drivers,
> unlike NVidia cards.
>
He may be using laptop, which may make this option impossible.
>> (I would prefer nouveau because it is "ours" but needs to work :-) )
>
> You could try libgl1-mesa-dri from unstable, but don't hold your
> breath. Improving support for these old cards is not a high priority
> for the Nouveau project.
>
> Cheers,
> Sven
>
>
> 1. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845639
>
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