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[Christopher James Halse Rogers <raof@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 23:18 +0100, Emanuele Oriani wrote:
> Hi all,

Hello!
> 
> Thanks for all the great packages available from your ppa.

Yeah, Robert rocks!

> I have a question though: I'm running Ubuntu 10.04, I've installed the
> latest drivers (256.44) but I got the following packages:
> 
> nvidia-173-modaliases, 173.14.27-0ubuntu1
> nvidia-96-modaliases, 96.43.18-0ubuntu1
> nvidia-common, 0.2.23
> nvidia-current, 256.44-0ubuntu0sarvatt~lucid
> nvidia-current-modaliases, 256.44-0ubuntu0sarvatt~lucid
> nvidia-settings, 256.44-0ubuntu0sarvatt~lucid
> 
> I can see from the nVidia drivers screen that I'm running 256.44 but
> what should I do with above nvidia-173/96-modaliases? Remove them?
> I still have even:
> 
> xserver-xorg-video-nouveau, 1:0.0.15+git20100219+9b4118d-0ubuntu5
> xserver-xorg-video-nv, 1:2.1.15-1ubuntu3
> 
> Should I remove those as well?

There's no reason to remove any of them.  They're not used, they don't
interfere with the binary nVidia drivers, and they take up negligible
space.

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