Bug#813541: nvidia-graphics-drivers: Huge problems 'upgrading' to legacy version
Source: nvidia-graphics-drivers Severity: important Dear Maintainer, 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. 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... -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Bug#813541: nvidia-graphics-drivers: Huge problems 'upgrading' to legacy version
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
