Well… Switching to another window manager doesn't solve the “any 3D/GLX
app would crash” issue…
In my case I would have preferred to use the nouveau driver from the
beginning, except that for ancient cards like the 6150SE it makes the
whole system freeze after only a few minutes…
Finally, I was
FYI, after a kernel upgrade the NVIDIA driver was unusable again. This
time was because of the DKMS mechanism which, for whatever reason I
didn't investigate yet (could it be because of the apt-pinning??),
didn't success to build and install the nvidia_304.ko module for the new
kernel.
If that
Sorry for the typos and long-lines… Can't find a way to edit back my
posts… :-/
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no login possible after
In my case I have a GeForce 6150SE so I really need this 304.131 and
can't higher version like 340.xx.
For people needing to downgrade, this is one (among others) correct way to do
so with Ubuntu 16.04:
- first create a file named /etc/apt/preferences.d/local-nvidia-quirks
with the following
Since this problem greatly affects usability (no graphic login anymore),
may be it's worth (in the users' point of view) creating a “fake
version” security-upgrade like "304.132-0ubuntu0.16.04.2+really304.131"
to fill the gap while waiting for Nvidia to provide a fix for 304.132,
IMHO.
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** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #840342
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=840342
** Also affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-304xx (Debian) via
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=840342
Importance: Unknown
Status: Unknown
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A debdiff between the packages shows the difference is mainly a version
upgrade from 304.131 to 304.132.
And it seems a lot of people are experiencing problems with version
304.132, cf
https://devtalk.nvidia.com/search/more/sitecommentsearch/304.132/
A specific thread retained my attention:
FYI, downgrade “solved” the problem for me too.
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