Bug#556749: nvidia-kernel-source: update initramfs on upgrade
Russ Allbery wrote: Szymon Janc szy...@janc.net.pl writes: ... Including nvidia module in initramfs solved all my issues at that time (module was loaded ~5 seconds earlier). Yet, on driver upgrade if I forgot to update initramfs manually, xserver didn't start because of nvidia module version mismatch. Oh! Interesting! We're having that problem again right now, and it didn't occur to me that including the module in initramfs might fix it. We may actually want to recommend that people do this. At least for gdm I don't think this will help because gdm startup fails (reproducable or never) independently on whether the module was previously loaded. So eventually this is some kind of a race condition for kdm: * the timeout is just sufficient - if the module was previously loaded - to load the module and initialize the card if nothing else eats cpu time * the timeout is insufficient - to load the module and initialize the card while many parallel startup operations happen because fewer cpu operations (I don't want to say 'time' here) are available - on slow systems (e.g. slow I/O (DVD) or emulated as Josef Spillner reported) that don't get enough cpu operations for initialization while the wall clock time runs at full speed. Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#556749: nvidia-kernel-source: update initramfs on upgrade
Dnia środa 07 kwiecień 2010 o 09:25:00 Russ Allbery napisał(a): Szymon Janc szy...@janc.net.pl writes: On upgrade nvidia-kernel-source could check if nvidia module is listed in /etc/initramfs-tools/modules and call update-initramfs if so. Why would you want to include the nvidia module in your initramfs image? Some time ago I was experiencing issues with long driver (not with every version) initialization which caused KDM failed to start or (less frequently) KDM started but my monitor was turning off (I had to switch to console and back to turn it on again). Including nvidia module in initramfs solved all my issues at that time (module was loaded ~5 seconds earlier). Yet, on driver upgrade if I forgot to update initramfs manually, xserver didn't start because of nvidia module version mismatch. This is not an issue on my system anymore and since putting video driver in initramfs is not typical use case, I will not protest if You wish to close this as won't fix. -- Szymon K. Janc szy...@janc.net.pl // GG: 1383435 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#556749: nvidia-kernel-source: update initramfs on upgrade
Szymon Janc szy...@janc.net.pl writes: Some time ago I was experiencing issues with long driver (not with every version) initialization which caused KDM failed to start or (less frequently) KDM started but my monitor was turning off (I had to switch to console and back to turn it on again). Including nvidia module in initramfs solved all my issues at that time (module was loaded ~5 seconds earlier). Yet, on driver upgrade if I forgot to update initramfs manually, xserver didn't start because of nvidia module version mismatch. Oh! Interesting! We're having that problem again right now, and it didn't occur to me that including the module in initramfs might fix it. We may actually want to recommend that people do this. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#556749: nvidia-kernel-source: update initramfs on upgrade
tags 556749 moreinfo thanks Szymon Janc szy...@janc.net.pl writes: On upgrade nvidia-kernel-source could check if nvidia module is listed in /etc/initramfs-tools/modules and call update-initramfs if so. Why would you want to include the nvidia module in your initramfs image? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#556749: nvidia-kernel-source: update initramfs on upgrade
Package: nvidia-kernel-source Version: 190.42-1 Severity: wishlist On upgrade nvidia-kernel-source could check if nvidia module is listed in /etc/initramfs-tools/modules and call update-initramfs if so. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (300, 'unstable'), (202, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=pl_PL, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to pl_PL.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages nvidia-kernel-source depends on: ii debhelper 7.4.3 helper programs for debian/rules ii dpatch2.0.31 patch maintenance system for Debia ii make 3.81-7 An utility for Directing compilati ii sed 4.2.1-4The GNU sed stream editor Versions of packages nvidia-kernel-source recommends: pn devscriptsnone (no description available) pn kernel-packagenone (no description available) ii module-assistant 0.11.1 tool to make module package creati ii nvidia-glx190.42-1 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver nvidia-kernel-source suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
