Sup guys, quick update: Seems Alberto was right, my family and friends switched back to Nouveau via the driver utility and were then able to install the new "tested" and "recommended" Nvidia drivers 346.82 via the stable repo provided by Ubuntu. No need to use -updates. System stability and speed has been restored! I can't verify this myself, since I have given up on Nvidia (running on AMD and Intel + Open Source drivers now), thus: I have added a screenshot that a friend sent me to this post, showing the new drivers available to Nvidia users.
Thanks @whoever fixed this! Cheers, Alex ** Attachment added: "New Nvidia drivers." https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-340-updates/+bug/1431753/+attachment/4445056/+files/20150814054438.jpg -- 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: Invalid Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331-updates package in Ubuntu: Invalid 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: Invalid Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331-updates source package in Trusty: Invalid 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
