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[Brandon Snider <brandonjsnider@xxxxxxxxx>]

Harry, thanks for the info on the problem with the Nvidia Vdpau PPA. The
problem with the xserver-xorg-video-5 instead of 6 was due to my initial
laziness in just copying the binaries from Karmic over the Lucid. I have
corrected it by building the drivers against Lucid. The new 190/195
driver in the PPA should support Lucid, and do provide xserver-xorg-
video-6.

Also, I have packaged them to use the external libvdpau, which is close
to how the blob will be packaged in Lucid and beyond. I updated nvidia-
common to use the 190/195 modaliases packages so jockey can be used to
install the drivers -- no need to mess with nvidia-xconfig or directly
edit xorg.conf.

I also packaged vdpauinfo which can be installed as an informational
tool.

Harry wrote "I wonder what is there that takes so long to get the latest
stable drivers into Ubuntu main repos."

There are a great number of scripts which must be painstakingly changed
each time a new blob is released. One mistake, just one little oversight
can result in a showstopper.

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[lucid] nvidia-glx can't work with new xorg 7.5
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