Package: nvidia-xconfig Version: 390.87-1~deb9u1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer,
I had to install nvidia-xconfig as suggested in https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/585014/how-to-configure-x-server-to-work-headless-as-well-with-any-monitor-connected-/ and in https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/808916/linux/nvidia-nvs-295-x11-headless/ . Each link provided information I needed and used successfully. Without nvidia-xconfig, I could not reboot a host by remote control because the monitor(s) might be off. Now the nvidia-using hosts boot regardless of whether their monitors are powered up and/or connected. Such functionality is essential for us. The nvidia-xconfig package's description says it is deprecated, which normally means that something is about to go away. But I know of no reasonable alternative to nvidia-config, other than to personally master the arcana of /etc/X11/xorg.conf, a file of perhaps mostly but not entirely historical interest which the package description says is no longer necessary. But AFAIK it *is* necessary, at least in this particular situation, which is a commonplace for us. It appears that the deprecation notice may have resulted from a misunderstanding of the nvidia-xconfig source code at github, where the word "deprecated" appears several times, referring to deprecated *features* of nvidia-xconfig, but not, AFAIK, with respect to the package itself. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.8 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages nvidia-xconfig depends on: ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u4 ii nvidia-installer-cleanup 20151021+4 Versions of packages nvidia-xconfig recommends: ii libgl1-nvidia-glvnd-glx [libgl1-nvidia-glx-any] 390.87-8~deb9u1 nvidia-xconfig suggests no packages. -- no debconf information