Hi Manuel, On 2016-02-02 23:56, Manuel Bilderbeek wrote: > I did my daily testing dist-upgrade just now, and I noticed I got a version of > the nvidia driver that is not going to work with my old GeForce 9600. I got a > nice pop up that the driver is not going to work, so I chose 'No', to not > install it. > > But afterwards, many packages of 352 were actually installed after all. > > I tried to install all the proper 340xx legacy packages, but as they didn't > conflict with the normal packages, all the normal stuff was also still > installed. Apparently that gave a lot of problems, because after booting I > only > got a very blinky text console and no X.
The current and legacy drivers are intended to be coinstallable. To switch to the -legacy driver while (parts of) -current is still installed, you could just use the new command update-glx --config nvidia We should probably advertise this more on the legacy warning screen. > After manually removing all packages of the 352 version and changing 'nvidia' > in /etc/modules-load.d/nvidia.conf to 'nvidia-legacy-340xx' I finally got a > working X11 again.... > > Why did I have to do all that manual work to get X11 working again? > Which package owns that nvidia.conf anyway? I couldn't find it... That depends ... on the setting of the alternatives. :-) Andreas