Bug#737217: nvidia-detect: incorrect detection for 304xx and current nvidia devices when using wheezy-backports nvidia-detect

2014-02-05 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 08:54:03PM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: On 2014-01-31 15:06, Kent Mathern wrote: Here's an example using the pciid of a GeForce GT 640, 10de:1282 Uh oh. Your card is only supported by the 71.86 legacy drivers series, which is not in any current Debian suite.

Bug#737217: nvidia-detect: incorrect detection for 304xx and current nvidia devices when using wheezy-backports nvidia-detect

2014-01-31 Thread Kent Mathern
Package: nvidia-detect Version: 319.72-1~bpo70+1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, The wheezy-backports nvidia-detect appears to incorrectly detect current nvidia devices, i.e. those supported by the 319.72-1~bpo70+1 version nvidia-driver package. It also appears to incorrectly detect 304xx

Bug#737217: nvidia-detect: incorrect detection for 304xx and current nvidia devices when using wheezy-backports nvidia-detect

2014-01-31 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2014-01-31 15:06, Kent Mathern wrote: The wheezy-backports nvidia-detect appears to incorrectly detect current nvidia devices, i.e. those supported by the 319.72-1~bpo70+1 version nvidia-driver package. It also appears to incorrectly detect 304xx legacy devices. 173xx and 96xx devices are

Bug#737217: nvidia-detect: incorrect detection for 304xx and current nvidia devices when using wheezy-backports nvidia-detect

2014-01-31 Thread Kent E. Mathern
But the wheezy default drivers are fine enough so that you don't need the backported driver. Its more interesting for the hardware support added after 304xx: there you will need nvidia-driver/wheezy- backports. The distro I'm using is wheezy-based, but it's using the 3.12 series

Bug#737217: nvidia-detect: incorrect detection for 304xx and current nvidia devices when using wheezy-backports nvidia-detect

2014-01-31 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2014-01-31 22:29, Kent E. Mathern wrote: What brought this up is I've created a script to install the nvidia driver, and it uses nvidia-detect to select the correct nvidia driver package. If it's going to be a longtime before nvidia-detect is backports aware, I might need to use some

Bug#737217: nvidia-detect: incorrect detection for 304xx and current nvidia devices when using wheezy-backports nvidia-detect

2014-01-31 Thread Diederik de Haas
On Friday 31 January 2014 22:46:47 Andreas Beckmann wrote: What brought this up is I've created a script to install the nvidia driver, and it uses nvidia-detect to select the correct nvidia driver package. Glad to see someone is using nvidia-detect for some autodetection work, maybe