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Package: nvidia-kernel-source
Version: 190.42-1
Severity: wishlist
On upgrade nvidia-kernel-source could check if nvidia module is listed in
/etc/initramfs-tools/modules and call update-initramfs if so.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (300, 'unstable'), (202, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=pl_PL, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to
pl_PL.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages nvidia-kernel-source depends on:
ii debhelper 7.4.3 helper programs for debian/rules
ii dpatch 2.0.31 patch maintenance system for Debia
ii make 3.81-7 An utility for Directing compilati
ii sed 4.2.1-4 The GNU sed stream editor
Versions of packages nvidia-kernel-source recommends:
pn devscripts <none> (no description available)
pn kernel-package <none> (no description available)
ii module-assistant 0.11.1 tool to make module package creati
ii nvidia-glx 190.42-1 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver
nvidia-kernel-source suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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On Thursday, 3. June 2010 13:46:31 Szymon Janc wrote:
> Dnia środa 07 kwiecień 2010 o 09:25:00 Russ Allbery napisał(a):
> > Szymon Janc <[email protected]> writes:
> > > On upgrade nvidia-kernel-source could check if nvidia module is listed
> > > in /etc/initramfs-tools/modules and call update-initramfs if so.
Isn't there some functionality to trigger a initramfs update? There are so
many hook and postinst possibilities for kernel, initrd and modules ...
otherwise shouldn't this be more the task of dh_installmodules or something
related?
> > Why would you want to include the nvidia module in your initramfs image?
>
> Some time ago I was experiencing issues with long driver (not with every
> version) initialization which caused KDM failed to start or (less
> frequently) KDM started but my monitor was turning off (I had to switch to
> console and back to turn it on again).
>
> Including nvidia module in initramfs solved all my issues at that time
> (module was loaded ~5 seconds earlier).
See the README.Debian in nvidia-glx for a better solution: properly increasing
the timeouts. kdm is fixed (i.e. timeout increased) in squeeze and gdm was
removed from unstable after squeeze release.
> Yet, on driver upgrade if I forgot
> to update initramfs manually, xserver didn't start because of nvidia module
> version mismatch.
see above, calling update-initramfs should not be the duty of the module
package (or should be automatically generated code from dh_installmodules).
Also how would this work with dkms?
> This is not an issue on my system anymore and since putting video driver in
> initramfs is not typical use case, I will not protest if You wish to close
> this as "won't fix".
I'm closing this now as wontfix as this is a) a bad hack for the timeout
problem working only in a few cases and b) not useful to have nvidia.ko in
the initrd IMHO.
Andreas
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