About that rule, the only way to prevent breaking testing would have been marking this bug as release critical not for this package, but for the linux kernel package. Which in turn would mean holding off new kernel releases from debian until a proprietary legacy driver is fixed, which might never happen since nvidia officially discontinued this driver. Also remember that this package is in non-free, which is considered to be not part of debian.
AFAIU it depends on turning a flag in kernel compilation, and I don't understand what it does but I trust it was shutdown for good reason. Just saying IMHO we shouldn't be mad at debian for what happened, just hope someone will find a way to fix it. Paolo Il lun 7 dic 2020, 02:12 Del Fernandes <multu...@delmir.com> ha scritto: > It was quite disappointing to see (or not see) the GUI/WM stop working > after a causal system update (not upGrade). > > I was able to get the system somewhat back to normal by using the > NOUVEAU driver instead of NVIDIA. BTW, even that was kind of tricking > because the Nvidia driver blacklisted Nouveau at > /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-blacklists-nouveau.conf which remained even > after purging everything related to Nvidia via APT. > > PS.: For some reason, the laptop no longer revived with Nouveau after > a suspend (closing the laptop's lid). That was "bypassed" in the > meantime by editing /etc/systemd/logind.conf and replacing all > "suspends" with "ignores". > > Again, that was very disappointing !8-(. What happened with the golden > 'Do no harm, don't break users' rule?! > > On Sun, Dec 6, 2020 at 1:33 PM Paolo Inaudi <p91p...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > @jim_p Is it possible for you to avoid putting all system information > > and Xorg logs in every message? > > It makes the thread very difficult to follow on the online bug tracker. > > > > I too rolled back to linux-image-5.9.0-3-amd64 which works, hope it > > won't be my very last kernel version. > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, send mail to 976056-unsubscr...@bugs.debian.org. > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to 976056-unsubscr...@bugs.debian.org. >