Backports service becoming official
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The Debian Project is proud to announce that the backports service,
previously available at http://www.backports.org is now an official Debian
service and will be available from backports.debian.org

Backports are packages from the testing distribution recompiled for the
current stable (or even oldstable) to provide users of the stable
distribution with new versions of some packages, like the Linux kernel,
the Iceweasel browser or the OpenOffice.org suite, without sacrificing
the general stability of the system.

The archive currently has packages backported for the Lenny distribution
(how many?), but the infrastructure to accept packages for the upcoming
Squeeze release is already in place, to allow Debian Installer images to
configure the backports repository by default without generating errors
on user systems. The service for Squeeze will be enabled at a later
date, after the release.

Because of some limitations in the Debian Bug Tracking System, any bugs
relevant to backported packages still have to be reported to the
debian-backports list, which will now also move on lists.debian.org.

The website is up and working.
Instructions

Thanks for the good news, but I hope the ATI 3D graphics drivers issue get resolved. I had a problem when I installed a kernel from backports on lenny installation. Radeon driver of xorg-xserver does not support 3D for my graphics card while the fglrx driver for the backports assumes it does. So, I had to go back to non-backports kernrl. Full story here:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...driver-825633/

That's an Ati problem,not a Debian one.
The Nvidia card I use (8800gts) has worked with *all* versions of X in Debian since Etch.

Blame ATI for dropping support for cards that are only a couple of years old.

The ancient Nvidia 5200 pci that I bought back at the dawn of time still works and is till supported.