Hey folks,

OK, here was the procedure (as a reminder, I’m on stretch, testing):

— boot into 4.6, verify everything works, purge both 4.7 kernel and 4.7 
headers, purge all nvidia-* (and nvidia-dkms was indeed installed)

— purge xserver-xorg-video-nvidia

— install xserver-xorg-xideo-nvidia and nvidia-driver (which pulls in 
nvidia-dmks as a dependency, among others)

— I’m still booted into 4.6, so watch the install script build nvidia-dmks 
package for 4.6 only.

— reboot (into the only kernel I have: 4.6), verify all is ok

— install 4.7 and 4.7 headers.  I observed that the install script and 
post-install hook did not rebuild nvidia-dkms for 4.7

— reboot into 4.7  and everything works.

So, to wrap up: I’m happy for now, but I clearly don’t understand something 
about how nvidia-dmks built for 4.6 also functions on 4.7  Did we get lucky 
here, or do we need a bug filed to get the post-install script to check what 
kernels are there and build the kms accordingly?

Thanks for your individual help off-list as well.

Cheers!
--
Boyan Penkov
www.boyanpenkov.com

> On Oct 6, 2016, at 1:34 PM, Pascal Obry <pas...@obry.net> wrote:
> 
> Le jeudi 06 octobre 2016 à 08:55 +0200, gianluca a écrit :
>> Are the opensource nouveau drivers so bad, so you need closed-source 
>> blob??? If so, that's your choice. But do not ask why something is
>> not working as execpted if you upgrade something on the kernel-side.
> 
> You may also say this without being harsh.
> 
> A possibility (and that's my case) is that I'm using NVIDIA proprietary
> driver as I need OpenCL support and AFAIK there is no OpenCL support
> with the Nouveau driver.
> 
> Anyway on my side I'm also on the 4.7 kernel (Debian/sid) and have no
> problem with the dkms nvidia package.
> 
> Cheers,
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