Andreas, On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 9:03 PM Andreas Beckmann <a...@debian.org> wrote: > > On 11/07/2022 18.35, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > Since the nvidia* package do the heavy lifting of downloading locally > > binary, it would make sense to add yet-another package for firmware > > related within the group. > > Putting a downloader package in contrib under the Nvidia Team umbrella > is fine, but someone needs to come up with an initial implementation. > A quick glance at the script gave me the impression that you need to > extract firmware from the 340xx legacy or older drivers. > Looking at existing packages (e.g. firmware-b43-installer), a name of > firmware-nouveau-installer might work.
If I understand correctly, all I need is the file `NVIDIA-Linux-x86-340.108.run` which is distributed directly in contrib in package nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-340xx-340.108. I'll see if I can patch this package directly instead of duplicating the code in another package. -M
