> Yes, 331 will be replaced by 340 through a system update. Nice, but is it possible that it not only replaces 331 by 340 but ALSO ENABLES THEM?
Because I'm under the impression that that just happened to me, and that's a bug. Ages ago, when I first enabled NVidia drivers, I had this problem that every time I would connect and disconnect an external screen, the computer would start to randomly freeze at any moment. It turned out it was because the lack of support of NVidia drivers for Optimus technology on Linux. So I SWITCHED TO NOUVEAU, and had never been using NVidia drivers ever since, which was/is the only option for those like me who have an Optimus device. And that issue disappeared (though the NVidia drivers were still installed and gave me the compile error at every kernel upgrade). Now, THE FREEZING ISSUE HAS REAPPEARED. I suspect the update not only replaced 331 with 340 drivers, but also enabled them while I had explicitly disabled them in favour of Nouveau. Please how do I disable them again? And please change back the status of this bug until this part is fixed too. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers-331 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1431753 Title: Nvidia binary driver FTBS due to DKMS layer violation Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331 package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331-updates package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-340-updates package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-346 package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-346-updates package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331 source package in Trusty: Triaged Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331-updates source package in Trusty: Triaged Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 source package in Trusty: Fix Released Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-340-updates source package in Trusty: Fix Released Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-346 source package in Trusty: Fix Released Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-346-updates source package in Trusty: Fix Released Bug description: Filing this against the 340-updates version but possibly the same applies to older versions, too. The nvidia source package produces two individual dkms packages: nvidia-340-updates, nvidia-340-updates-uvm. The problem is that the DKMS build of the nvidia-uvm module runs compile steps inside the nvidia modules build directory. This is violating the DKMS assumption that each module can be build independently (there is no way of describing cross-modules dependencies and even more important, the autoinstall step after a new kernel is installed will run the modules build in parallel). Since nvidia and nvidia-uvm are very dependent on each other the right course of action seems to be to combine both sources in one DKMS module that produces two kernel modules (this is supported by DKMS). For the transition this resulting dkms package needs to have a breaks/replaces for the nvidia-uvm package. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-331/+bug/1431753/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp