Hans <hans.ullr...@loop.de> writes: > Dear debian team, > > I just discovered the "nividia-legacy-340xx"-packages in debian sid. > > However, as they were in buster, but NOT in bullseye, NOR in bookworm, > I wonder, if there is a chance, they will transfer from testing to > bookworm some day. > > I tested them on bookworm, and they built (what a pleasent > surprise!!), but I could not load them on actual bookworm kernel > 6.1.0.9. Ok, this might be, that some other libs needed by the driver, > are incompatible, because they need libs from sid, but that does not > matter for me. > > My question is more: Will these packages be transferred to testing > some day and then from testing to stable? Or will they (when > transferred to testing) NEVER be transferred to stable (until the next > big release, of course). > > What is the policy with those (unfree and third party packages )and > what are the chances at all? > > Thanks for your help, oh and thank you for the people, who got this > package buildable! > > Best regards > > Hans
As far as I remember the problem in Nvidia does not support kernels above 4. This is why my laptop is stuck on Debian 10, although I did wonder if Debian 11 can run with kernel 4. (Nouveaux is no good to me).
