Bug#833895: nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver: blank screen after upgrade

2016-08-17 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Wed, 2016-08-17 at 09:41 -0500, Luis Mochan wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 10:35:07AM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > > > I also noticed later that you had some extra blacklists in > > the /etc/modprobe.d directory. Also nowadays the Xorg log lives in > Were they wrong? I only recall having

Bug#833895: nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver: blank screen after upgrade

2016-08-17 Thread Luis Mochan
On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 10:35:07AM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > I also noticed later that you had some extra blacklists in > the /etc/modprobe.d directory. Also nowadays the Xorg log lives in Were they wrong? I only recall having commented/uncommented those related to nouveau and nvidia. >

Bug#833895: nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver: blank screen after upgrade

2016-08-17 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Tue, 2016-08-16 at 21:36 -0500, Luis Mochan wrote: > Dear Luca, > As your comments hinted at a misconfiguration and it had been a very > long time since I had used that machine, I ran a live jessie debian > distribution and the X-windows system worked with the nvidia driver, > but only in the

Bug#833895: nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver: blank screen after upgrade

2016-08-16 Thread Luis Mochan
Dear Luca, As your comments hinted at a misconfiguration and it had been a very long time since I had used that machine, I ran a live jessie debian distribution and the X-windows system worked with the nvidia driver, but only in the failsafe mode. I decided then to make a fresh install of jessie

Bug#833895: nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver: blank screen after upgrade

2016-08-15 Thread Luis Mochan
Hi Luca, On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 10:10:29PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > Control: severity -1 important > Control: tags -1 moreinfo > ... > I cannot reproduce on a fresh amd64 sid install with a gtx 780, so > downgrading severity as most likely cause is hardware or setup > dependent. OK. It is

Bug#833895: nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver: blank screen after upgrade

2016-08-15 Thread Luca Boccassi
Control: severity -1 important Control: tags -1 moreinfo On Tue, 2016-08-09 at 22:09 -0500, Luis Mochan wrote: > Package: nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver > Version: 340.96-9 > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable > > Dear Maintainer, > > I upgraded my system today. I received a

Bug#833895: nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver: blank screen after upgrade

2016-08-09 Thread Luis Mochan
Package: nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver Version: 340.96-9 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, I upgraded my system today. I received a warning that the nvidia driver wouldn't work anymore with my old card and that I should install the legacy-340xx package.