Do you also have the nasty bug ID ? I could try to reproduce it (and maybe give a clue about some fix...)
2015-10-18 14:30 GMT+02:00 Julien Aubin <[email protected]>: > 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 >> >> >>
