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[Bob Freemer <bob.freemer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Bryce,

I understand your reluctance to include in time for lucid.  Quite
reasonable.

However, perhaps you misunderstood the specifics of the problem?  Your
second and third bullet points seem inaccuratge.

On the second:  A workaround is generally defined to restore full
function.  The nouveau alternative does not.  All 3D capabilities are
unsupported by the nouveau driver.  This is of course the meat of any
GPU.

On the third:  Since lucid guides the user to the nvidia binary in it's
nicely implemented "Hardware Drivers" dialogue, I believe novice users
would expect the resulting upgrade to the nvidia blob to work with
distro defaults.  As I and others have detailed, it does not.

Unlike some, I agree completely that binary driver bugs have no place in
Ubuntu's buglist.  But this is an unusual situation; the nv drivers are
essentially abandoned.  The nouveau drivers aren't quite ready.  The
nvidia binary works fine in karmic, but doesn't work for the reasons
mentioned above in lucid.  If it weren't for this last point, I would
agree this is a minor bug.  But to break new things in the LTS certainly
seems visible very suspect for a stable release.

Unless a fix is found soon (I'm still looking), I might suggest
regressing the default nvidia blob and xinerama libraries in lucid to
solve this bug and let users make the choice to upgrade to the newer
(broken) version which is presently lucid's default!

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