Bug#804547: [nvidia-driver] Outdated nvidia drivers

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2016-04-26 20:14, Peter Keel wrote:
> Yes, "Download the run files (i386 and amd64) from Nvidia into that directory"
> is not quite correct, you also need the .run for armv7l-gnueabihf, or the 
> building will fail. 

But he also mentioned, that he restricted the list of architectures to
i386 amd64.


Anyway, the generic way to build the .orig.tar.gz after you have checked
out the appropriate branch from svn is

  debian/rules get-orig-source


Andreas

PS: we should have a wiki page explaining how to build bleeding edge
driver packages from svn

Bug#804547: [nvidia-driver] Outdated nvidia drivers

[Peter Keel]

* on the Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 07:27:17PM +0200, Floris wrote:
> There is a statement:
> https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-nvidia-devel/2016-April/012918.html
> 
> the alternative is build the packages yourself:
> https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-nvidia-devel/2016-April/012917.html
>  
> Please build the packages and report all the issues you have, so the
> maintainers can make a stable package.

Yes, "Download the run files (i386 and amd64) from Nvidia into that directory"
is not quite correct, you also need the .run for armv7l-gnueabihf, or the 
building will fail. 

So far so good, I'm now trying whether it runs. 

Kind Regards
Peter
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Bug#804547: [nvidia-driver] Outdated nvidia drivers

[Floris]

Op Tue, 26 Apr 2016 09:03:00 +0200 schreef Peter Keel  
:



Yes, can we at least have a statement/explanation what to do?

- Do we need to install X from experimental in order to be able
to install newer nvidia-drivers? (because of ABI changes?)

- All the drivers in debian are outdated. Stable driver is 364.19
http://www.nvidia.co.uk/download/driverResults.aspx/101848/en-uk
what's the plan there? Do you still plan to release another one
or two outdated drivers (358, 361) first, after the other outdated
driver (355) migrates from experimental to unstable?

Thank you for your clarifications/outlying of your plans.

Peter


There is a statement:
https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-nvidia-devel/2016-April/012918.html

the alternative is build the packages yourself:
https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-nvidia-devel/2016-April/012917.html

Please build the packages and report all the issues you have, so the  
maintainers can make a stable package.


Success,

Floris

Bug#804547: [nvidia-driver] Outdated nvidia drivers

[Peter Keel]

Yes, can we at least have a statement/explanation what to do?

- Do we need to install X from experimental in order to be able
to install newer nvidia-drivers? (because of ABI changes?)

- All the drivers in debian are outdated. Stable driver is 364.19
http://www.nvidia.co.uk/download/driverResults.aspx/101848/en-uk
what's the plan there? Do you still plan to release another one 
or two outdated drivers (358, 361) first, after the other outdated
driver (355) migrates from experimental to unstable? 

Thank you for your clarifications/outlying of your plans.

Peter
-- 
"Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve 
neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
"It's also true that those who would give up privacy for security are 
likely to end up with neither." -- Bruce Schneier

Bug#804547: [nvidia-driver] Outdated nvidia drivers

[Eric Valette]

On Thu, 4 Feb 2016 11:49:48 +0100 Andreas Beckmann  wrote:

On 2016-02-04 10:55, Nick T. wrote:
> Hello Andreas,
>
> The 355.11-1 version is 7 months old already which is way outdated already 
for newer games(e.g. XCOM-2 comming out this Friday needs 355.63 and above) the 
newest version on nvidias website is 358.16.
> And also according to #813565 the new driver is not compatible with sids X 
abi.

With a reasonably recent driver in unstable and testing (352.79)
experimental was finally free for testing upstream reorganization (new
packages needed, new module build system, new kernel module), so at the
moment experimental is actually experimental :-)


The biggest problem is that the version uploaded to experimental cannot 
run with unstable : it does no even support abi-20 and forcing 
-ignoreABI just makes the drivers crash.


So please at least put in experimental something that do work with 
unstable. It broke my system for a reason that the usual excuse cannot 
cover


-- eric

Bug#804547: [nvidia-driver] Outdated nvidia drivers

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2016-02-04 10:55, Nick T. wrote:
> Hello Andreas,
> 
> The 355.11-1 version is 7 months old already which is way outdated already 
> for newer games(e.g. XCOM-2 comming out this Friday needs 355.63 and above) 
> the newest version on nvidias website is 358.16.
> And also according to #813565 the new driver is not compatible with sids X 
> abi.

With a reasonably recent driver in unstable and testing (352.79)
experimental was finally free for testing upstream reorganization (new
packages needed, new module build system, new kernel module), so at the
moment experimental is actually experimental :-)


Andreas

Bug#804547: [nvidia-driver] Outdated nvidia drivers

[Nick T.]

Hello Andreas,

The 355.11-1 version is 7 months old already which is way outdated already for 
newer games(e.g. XCOM-2 comming out this Friday needs 355.63 and above) the 
newest version on nvidias website is 358.16.
And also according to #813565 the new driver is not compatible with sids X abi.

Regards,
Nick

-- 

Bug#804547: [nvidia-driver] Outdated nvidia drivers

[Luca Boccassi]

On 4 February 2016 at 09:55, Nick T.  wrote:
> Hello Andreas,
>
> The 355.11-1 version is 7 months old already which is way outdated already 
> for newer games(e.g. XCOM-2 comming out this Friday needs 355.63 and above) 
> the newest version on nvidias website is 358.16.
> And also according to #813565 the new driver is not compatible with sids X 
> abi.

Hi Nick,

We know, Andreas is working through all major versions so that they
are all in the archive. If you noticed, 343 through 352 went into
unstable in rapid succession.

355 was next in the list and that's why it went to experimental, and
we just tested 358 and it works fine so I guess it will most likely be
next in queue for experimental.

Note that there is no 355.63 on Linux - I guess newer games will
require 358 or 361 (which is just a beta for now, it needs some major
packaging changes due to libraries reorganizations so it's not ready
yet).

Please be patient.

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi