On יום ראשון, 9 באוקטובר 2016 17:54:35 IDT Boyan Penkov wrote: > 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,
With legacy-304xx, did not build for the 4.6 and what was built for 4.7 did not work! Impossible to go back to testing which did work :-( These packages are off Debian, it seems.
