FS#34837 - [bumblebee] nvidia-304xx support

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Benjamin Chretien (bchretien) - Thursday, 18 April 2013, 05:09 GMT
Last edited by Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro) - Monday, 22 April 2013, 01:18 GMT
Task Type Support Request
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

There is currently a conflict between "nvidia-304xx-utils" and "mesa-libgl". "nvidia-304xx-utils" is a dependency of "nvidia-304xx" and "mesa-libgl" a dependency of "bumblebee". Thus, one cannot use bumblebee with the 304xx drivers. Since new NVIDIA driver releases sometimes come with new bugs, being able to fallback to a previous "stable" driver would be quite useful for bumblebee users.

Additional info:
* package version(s): bumblebee (3.1.6)

Steps to reproduce:

Try to install nvidia-304xx with bumblebee.

> "nvidia-304xx-utils and mesa-libgl are in conflict (libgl). Remove mesa-libgl?"
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Closed by  Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro)
Monday, 22 April 2013, 01:18 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Comment by Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro) - Monday, 22 April 2013, 01:17 GMT
The legacy drivers are indeed not bumblebee ready. Internally we agreed to keep the old drivers as they are. I'm not running the legacy drivers so I couldn't test the proposed changes. Bumblebee should only be used in conjunction with the nvidia package for now.

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