On Jan 25, 2013, at 3:57 PM, jdow wrote:
> To a degree I can sympathize with the elrepo people. Nvidia has screwed up.

This is not the first time nvidia cards have gone 'legacy'.  There are now three supported legacy nvidia driver versions (304.xx, 173.xx, and 96.xx).  Prior to 310.xx, there were but two.

> After getting disgusted with ATI I abandoned them for Nvidia. Now maybe I
> need to figure out how good the support for Intel cards is these days.
> 

Yeah, good luck with that.  

> But, still, the gentlemen at elrepo could have handled this a little more
> gracefully, methinks. It's a shame they're stuck in the middle here. They
> seem to be basically very good folks.
> 

They handled it as gracefully as it could have been handled, since the heads-up was posted on the elrepo list quite a while ago.  I do think that if one uses third party packages, one should follow at least the announcement lists for each such repo.