Package: nvidia-support Version: 20130816+1 Severity: important Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer, Installing bumblebee-nvidia (for optimus support) also pulls in the proprietary nvidia packages, along with nvidia-support; during the installation process, the user will see a debconf prompt saying that a xorg.conf snippet must be used to enable the nvidia driver (nvidia-support/create-nvidia-conf), which does not apply for nvidia optimus users and will break glx on the user's main display if the user blindly follows those debconf prompts. Please consider the following patch (attached with this email) against nvidia-support's debconf templates to address this issue. Regards, Vincent -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.12-5-vclaptop-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages nvidia-support depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.52 nvidia-support recommends no packages. nvidia-support suggests no packages. -- debconf information: nvidia-support/check-running-module-version: true nvidia-support/last-mismatching-module-version: 310.19 nvidia-support/removed-but-enabled-in-xorg-conf: nvidia-support/create-nvidia-conf: true * nvidia-support/needs-xorg-conf-to-enable: * nvidia-support/warn-nouveau-module-loaded: nvidia-support/check-xorg-conf-on-removal: true nvidia-support/warn-mismatching-module-version:
diff -Nru a/debian/nvidia-support.templates b/debian/nvidia-support.templates --- a/debian/nvidia-support.templates 2013-05-05 05:51:31.000000000 -0700 +++ b/debian/nvidia-support.templates 2014-01-12 02:09:53.883701648 -0800 @@ -50,6 +50,9 @@ The NVIDIA driver is not yet configured; it needs to be enabled in xorg.conf before it can be used. . + Ignore this message if you have a laptop with NVIDIA Optimus technology + (dual Intel and NVIDIA GPUs). + . Please see the package documentation for instructions. Template: nvidia-support/check-xorg-conf-on-removal @@ -74,7 +77,8 @@ Default: true Description: Create a minimal Xorg configuration to enable NVIDIA? The NVIDIA Xorg driver that was just installed requires manual configuration - to be activated. + to be activated, unless you have a laptop with NVIDIA Optimus technology + (dual Intel and NVIDIA GPUs). . A minimal config file that should be sufficient to start the X server can be created now. This file (/etc/X11/nvidia.conf) can be customized @@ -83,3 +87,5 @@ If you choose not to create this file now, you have to create your own configuration (in /etc/X11/xorg.conf or better /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/*.conf) before Xorg can use the NVIDIA driver. + . + Do NOT create this file if you have a laptop with NVIDIA Optimus technology.
