Comment 59 for bug 626974

I have same trouble with nvidia-96 on 10.10 fresh install.

I can see both viewpoints. I know people that upgraded to Windows 7 and found older peripherals no longer worked and had to be replaced, so it does happen with “mainstream” OS. However there is a definite perception that Linux generally is more usable on older hardware, so incompatibilities (especially for something that worked in last few releases only a few months ago) are a little unexpected.

There is also the frequency of updates, whilst Windows only has a new release every 3 years or so and thus people expect larger changes, Ubuntu is effectively re-released every 6 months so people expect things that worked 6 months ago to still work. (I know there are LTS releases that are the most stable, but still people like to get the latest if its available).

Despite all this what is the expected solution. The issue was first raised nearly 2 months ago on 2010-08-30 and still hasn't been resolved (and may have been known about months before that), so is it likely to be resolved soon or should we be looking at other options. Is there a possibility that it will never be resolved (ie. hardware deemed too old so won’t bother trying to get drivers to work)? Will Nouveau ever get to the same capability and if so when. Would be good to know the expectations and timing so people can decide what to do, like roll-back to pseudo 10.04 or buy a new card.