On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 07:14:26PM -0800, Nigra Truo wrote:
> I tried Kernel 4.2 from backports, no dice, thing still crashes.
Not surprising, the big overhaul was in 4.3.
I've just switched to nouveau on 4.3, no crash for me yet; it's been only
two hours of light activity though so it's not conclusive. And my crash
looks different from yours save for the symptoms...
> How do I get the new version of nouveau? Backports does not seem to offer
> any newer version.
For 4.3 you need to install it from experimental, as it'd be some time until
it reaches backports. It's safe to add experimental to your apt sources as
packages are not installed automatically (except exp->exp upgrades). It
appears that the experimental kernel has no dependencies that are
unsatisfiable in stable, so it can be installed by just "apt-get install
linux-image-4.3.0-trunk-amd64".
> I could compile nouveau from scratch, but it seems to be very complicated
> and hairy.
As there's a ready Debian kernel in experimental, there's no need.
> I might also go away from nouveau and use the proprietary drivers again. Do
> you know a manual how to easily install them on Debian Jessie? I remember
> the process very painful from before, not knowing which version to take and
> the machine staying without X for a while, while X failed to start till I
> could fix it.
You need to have kernel headers for your kernel version installed.
apt-get install nvidia-driver
The third step is writing a /etc/X11/xorg.conf that contains at least:
Section "Device"
Identifier "anything"
Driver "nvidia"
EndSection
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