No problem I've pushed a WA in the bug report. If you could put it in the wiki. I never managed to create an account on it Le 18 oct. 2015 14:23, "Luca Boccassi" <[email protected]> a écrit :
> On Sun, 2015-10-18 at 00:23 +0200, Julien Aubin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > The problem is that until now you guaranteed that NVidia drivers could > > be installed for Maxwell GPU owners using your experimental repo, and > > now this is no longer the case. > > > > > > Cf. documentation : > > https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers > > > > > > > > I perfectly understand your point but this is a problem for anyone > > upgrading their GPU. So until the moment glx-alternative-nvidia is in > > backports repo could you please revert to 352.41 ? > > Hi Julien, > > Sorry for these troubles. > > Unfortunately we are facing a rather nasty bug with devices permissions, > which might have bad implications, and we don't have a definitive > comprehensive solution yet. So for a little while longer things in > unstable/experimental will be in a bit of flux. After all, that's what > unstable and experimental are for :-) > > Meanwhile, users can either (as Andreas already suggested) install all > the binary packages of glx-alternatives from sid (glx-diversions, > glx-alternative-nvidia, glx-alternative-mesa) or pin the nvidia-driver > to the previous version, 352.41. This can be done with "sudo apt-mark > hold <package-name>". This way your update/dist-upgrade won't be broken. > > Kind regards, > Luca Boccassi > > >
