On Sat, 2015-08-15 at 19:27 +0000, Julien Aubin wrote: > Package: nvidia-driver > Version: 340.65-2 > Severity: blocker > > Dear Maintainer, > > Backport of Kernel 4.1 in Jessie actually broke NVidia driver, with > DKMS refusing to build the NVidia module again. So this leads > to X server failing from booting. > > The problem is blocking for anyone using pre-Fermi hardware unless > they pin the NVidia driver from testing (which includes the fix), i.e. > version 340.76. Anyway this could be a showstopper for newbies. For > other users the solution consists in pinning NVidia driver 352.xx from > experimental. > > Releases 304.xx and 340.xx are currently affected. > > So could you please issue rather quickly an update for these drivers > as otherwise the number of reports is likely to skyrocket ? Sorry > to put pressure on you but here this is rather urgent.
Hi Julien, Thanks for the report. Vincent, Andreas mentioned a couple of times in the mailing list the intention of pushing a new version down to jessie-backports. Do you know which one he intended? Do you think it could be a problem for the legacy-340xx split process if 340.76-5 was uploaded to backports? Should instead a bpo rebuild of 340.65-2 with the dkms fixes be uploaded? We should probably fix 304xx as well, since it's available in Jessie, Stretch and Sid. I'll have a look later tonight. Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
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