Thought I might post this here as well.

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

Greetings,

I am placing this Request for Help as I can no longer do the majority of
the work on the NVIDIA packages. Although some people have offered time
and work over recent years, there really needs to be another Developer
or Maintainer that can take on a lot of work. Also I feel an injection
of fresh spirit would be helpful in some of the areas requiring an
overhaul. I am not stepping away, however. I just wish to reduce my role
in a way that is more comfortable and beneficial to the team and
project.

Randall Donald

The current 190.53 nvidia-graphics-drivers were uploaded to NEW and the latest 173xx legacy branch is now in unstable. Now back to your regularly scheduled Friday

Ya so I finally got around to uploading a legacy 96.43.13 version that works with the latest kernels and ia32 libs.
Please hold off on the tomato throwing for a while please.

nvidia-graphics-drivers_185.18.36-1_i386.changes ACCEPTED
nvidia-graphics-drivers_185.18.36-1_amd64.changes ACCEPTED

for those mobile GPU peeps. (Just an upstream bump)

nvidia-graphics-drivers_185.18.31-2_amd64.changes uploaded

nvidia-graphics-drivers_185.18.31-2_i386.changes uploaded


with ia32-libs support

A new upload of nvidia-graphics-drivers (185.18.14-2) is in NEW with changes such as:

• shlibs clean up
  
• rename nvidia-libvdpau* to nvidia-libvdpau1
  
• libcuda1, libcuda1-ia32, libcuda-dev: split out
  
• really put 32 and 64 bit versions of nv-kernel.o in the source package
  
• many cleanups
  

plus dozens more thanks to much work done by Andreas Beckmann <debian@abeckmann.de>

So say we all.

Author: rdonald
Date: Wed Jun 10 22:56:45 2009
New Revision: 557

URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-nvidia/?sc=1&rev=557
Log:
prepare 185.18.14 and libvdpau



It has begun!

So Friday evening I tried to upgrade my X in sid at work. Sid doesn't like my 3 head workstation at work. More specifically X. So I've decided to downgrade to lenny (for the second time) and stay there for a while.

Then while downloading 1the 185.18.14 drivers to start packaging them, my hard drive at home starts to fail.

I hate computers.

I just uploaded nvidia-graphics-drivers 180.44 that work with Debian's 2.6.29 thanks to package team member Len Sorensen. If anyone wants to be as amazing as Len you may join the packaging team too.

I also did some BTS cleaning in regards to bugs reported by people not using the debian packages (and even said so) but reassigned to us anyway.

I am also battling a bad cold. I always get sick on holidays.

Oh one more thing. Go Canucks!

Started updating our Debian Machines at Hosting Nation to Lenny. Smooth so far.

I've uploaded the 177.80 drivers to experimental. Note that there is another legacy break with this release. e.g. my secondary FX5500 card is no longer supported so I'm stuck at the 173.xx branch at work. The NVIDIA packaging team will have a legacy version of 173.14.12 available shortly.

The 96xx legacy kernel modules have entered NEW today.

I just uploaded lenny modules for the current branch of NVIDIA drivers. Only 4 more source packages to go, plus patching 71.86.06 for xen and 2.6.25+.

My wife and I have almost settled in our new home now. We start moving the alpacas today. I finally have some time to address the issues with the NVIDIA packages in regards to Lenny. As 2.6.26 is now in unstable I can build kernel modules for the proper kernel target and get a xen patch for 71.86.06. 173.14.12 will go into experimental shortly.