Hi Luca and Julien, On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 12:58 PM, Luca Boccassi <luca.bocca...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 2015-08-15 at 19:27 +0000, Julien Aubin wrote: >> Package: nvidia-driver >> Version: 340.65-2 >> Severity: blocker >> >> Dear Maintainer, >> >> Backport of Kernel 4.1 in Jessie actually broke NVidia driver, with >> DKMS refusing to build the NVidia module again. So this leads >> to X server failing from booting. >> >> The problem is blocking for anyone using pre-Fermi hardware unless >> they pin the NVidia driver from testing (which includes the fix), i.e. >> version 340.76. Anyway this could be a showstopper for newbies. For >> other users the solution consists in pinning NVidia driver 352.xx from >> experimental. >> >> Releases 304.xx and 340.xx are currently affected. >> >> So could you please issue rather quickly an update for these drivers >> as otherwise the number of reports is likely to skyrocket ? Sorry >> to put pressure on you but here this is rather urgent. > > Hi Julien, > > Thanks for the report. > > Vincent, > > Andreas mentioned a couple of times in the mailing list the intention of > pushing a new version down to jessie-backports. Do you know which one he > intended? Do you think it could be a problem for the legacy-340xx split > process if 340.76-5 was uploaded to backports? Should instead a bpo > rebuild of 340.65-2 with the dkms fixes be uploaded? > > We should probably fix 304xx as well, since it's available in Jessie, > Stretch and Sid. I'll have a look later tonight.
I've gone ahead and uploaded nvidia-graphics-drivers/340.76-5~bpo8+1 and nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-304xx/304.125-2~bpo8+1 to backports-NEW (as with all new backported packages, pending ftpmaster approval). I don't think there are any changes up to 340.76-5 that would break specifically on jessie systems, so I don't see a need to upload a backported package that's rebased on top of 340.65-2 instead of 340.76-5. I haven't yet uploaded a backport for nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-340xx; we'll probably want to do that once nvidia-graphics-drivers in sid gets updated beyond 340.xx, but at the moment there's no pressing need for that. Regards, Vincent
