Comment 29 for bug 741930

I'd say a simpler but still useful thing would be to make sure that if
some hardware isn't compatible at the time of release because a
proprietary driver is required (and that's the situation here - Unity
doesn't work on Nouveau), then a big, red note of that should be made
in the "release notes" prompt encouraging for upgrade, so that people
can wait until Nvidia or any other vendor provides updated driver.

Alternatively, the upgrading script should warn user about such
incompatibilities at the start of the process, allowing them to easily
cancel.

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Andrea Mazzilli
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> for the next Ubuntu release, if the nvidia-96 driver are not compatible
> with xorg again, it's possible add a "legacy xorg" to the repository?
>
> something like:
> xserver-xorg-core  (new version, for the driver compatible)
> xserver-xorg-core-1.9 (legacy, for the driver that not support new xorg)
>
> then the nvidia-96 package require the legacy xorg instead of the new
> one
>
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> Title:
>  [natty] nvidia binary packages for older cards - dependencies not met
>
> Status in NVIDIA Drivers Ubuntu:
>  Confirmed
> Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers” package in Ubuntu:
>  Invalid
> Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-173” package in Ubuntu:
>  Fix Released
> Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-96” package in Ubuntu:
>  Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>  Package has broken dependencies that cannot be met.
>  xorg-video-abi-8.0
>  xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.8.99.905-1ubuntu3)
>
>  Steps to reproduce:
>  1. Install Natty beta & do sudo apt-get upgrade and dist-upgrade
>  2. Try sudo apt-get install nvidia-96 to get the error.
>
>  (confirmed to still occur in beta 1).
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