On Sun, 2015-10-18 at 00:23 +0200, Julien Aubin wrote: > Hi, > > > The problem is that until now you guaranteed that NVidia drivers could > be installed for Maxwell GPU owners using your experimental repo, and > now this is no longer the case. > > > Cf. documentation : > https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers > > > > I perfectly understand your point but this is a problem for anyone > upgrading their GPU. So until the moment glx-alternative-nvidia is in > backports repo could you please revert to 352.41 ?
Hi Julien, Sorry for these troubles. Unfortunately we are facing a rather nasty bug with devices permissions, which might have bad implications, and we don't have a definitive comprehensive solution yet. So for a little while longer things in unstable/experimental will be in a bit of flux. After all, that's what unstable and experimental are for :-) Meanwhile, users can either (as Andreas already suggested) install all the binary packages of glx-alternatives from sid (glx-diversions, glx-alternative-nvidia, glx-alternative-mesa) or pin the nvidia-driver to the previous version, 352.41. This can be done with "sudo apt-mark hold <package-name>". This way your update/dist-upgrade won't be broken. Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
