Hi Marvin, On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Marvin Renich <[email protected]> wrote: > Source: nvidia-graphics-drivers > Version: 340.32-1 > Severity: important > > On a machine with a graphics card supported by version 304, but > relegated to the legacy packages for version 340, upgrading the > nvidia-kernel-dkms and nvidia-driver packages leaves the system with an > unusable X Windows system. > > The preinst script should determine if the hardware was supported by the > old version of the package but not the new version, and give the > sysadmin an opportunity to fail the upgrade, with an appropriate > explanation.
Most of the heavy lifting can be done with nvidia-detect; I would've assumed that there was already a debconf prompt provided by nvidia-graphics-drivers/nvidia-support, but I guess there isn't? In any case, patches welcome. I'd like to point out that the various nvidia packages are (supposed to be) co-installable, letting you pick what driver series to use at runtime rather than during package installation (and the kernel modules are patched so that they're versioned as well), so I don't think we should forcefully fail package installation attempts of nvidia drivers that aren't compatible with the user's hardware. Again, probably a debconf prompt invoking nvidia-detect at some point would be appropriate. Regards, Vincent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
