On יום שני, 19 בדצמבר 2016 13:26:04 IST Luca Boccassi wrote: > On Mon, 19 Dec 2016 14:56:33 +0200 David Baron <dbaron...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On ××× ×©× ×, 19 ××צ××ר 2016 10:44:13 IST Andreas Beckmann wrote: > > > Hi David, > > > > > > On 2016-12-17 19:39, David Baron wrote: > > > > Program has been running fine. Bug should have been closed before. > > > > > > So this was unrelated to the 304xx driver? Closing the bug now. > > > > > > > Have to try that 304.134, though. 304xx has been a catastrophe on Sid > > > > with > > > > no orderly downgrade successful for me. > > > > > > That was due to lack of xserver 1.19 support in the old versions? > > > > > > Since you are the only known user of the 304xx driver (none of the > > > Debian NVIDIA Maintainers still has compatible hardware) it would be > > > great if you could test the 304.134 packages we have now in sid - it > > > supports the current Xserver in testing. Also testing with Linux 3.9 > > > would be appreciated (currently in experimental), since we anticipate > > > that a small patch for the kernel module may still be needed. > > > > The problems with 304xx from kde kwin compositing still persist, > > unchanged > > (at least as I can see) from the previous Sid version. So the patch may > > well be needed. If there is going to be a 304xx, someone among the > > maintainers needs hardware to test it to avoid a recurrance of what > > happened now. I would not mind simply using Nouveau but there is the same > > issue and this one is "ours." Previous version simply hung up. > > > > I am running Sid, 4.8 kernel. Do you mean the 4.9 kernel? > > After rearranging the partitions from the unworkable ones given by the > > installation, I can and do keep multiple kernels around so I could > > presumably test his. Let me know when it is patched and ready to test. > > Yes the 4.9 kernel might have a problem. It would be great if you could > test it as-is without the patch (304.134-1), and then if the kernel > module does not load then we know we have to patch it (less churn this > way). > > Thanks! > > Kind regards, > Luca Boccassi
The 304.134-1 (Did not try to downgrade) compiles fine over 4.9 rc8 kernel (dkms). Loads, runs the same, same bug.
