[Bug 1737750] Re: nvidia-graphics-drivers fail to build [error: implicit declaration of function ‘init_timer’]

2018-11-24 Thread jfrantzius via ubuntu-bugs
... but do not upgrade to Ubuntu 18.10, as its XServer comes with a new ABI version that nvidia-304 refuses to work with, and ignoring ABI incompatibility screws up the display (at least with my Geforce Go 7600). I guess this won't be possible to patch without NVidia themselves releasing a new vers

[Bug 1737750] Re: nvidia-graphics-drivers fail to build [error: implicit declaration of function ‘init_timer’]

2018-11-24 Thread jfrantzius via ubuntu-bugs
@Andy Dufresne (adufray): thank you very much for the great description of how to apply Seth's patch, and of course, thank you very much Seth Forshee for providing the patch! For anybody else so far left in the dust with a deceased nvidia-304 driver: rejoice, and just follow the perfectly working

[Bug 1748000] Re: Remove from the archive: this legacy driver is unmaintained upstream

2018-05-11 Thread jfrantzius via ubuntu-bugs
Is there any official word from NVIDIA that this driver is now dead upstream? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1748000 Title: Remove from the archive: this legacy driver is unmaintained

[Bug 1737750] Re: nvidia-graphics-drivers-304 304.137-0ubuntu2 ADT test failure with linux 4.15.0-1.2

2018-05-10 Thread jfrantzius via ubuntu-bugs
Could some friendly soul provide instructions on how to apply the patch from comment #2 ? Or are there any chances it will be applied in a way that the proprietary driver manager will find the (patched) 304.137 driver again? (the alleged patch on if-not-true-then-false seems to be something entir