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<div>I spoke to a <span style="font-size: 12pt;">kernel developer about a regression problems with the </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">MacBookPro 10,1 and was informed about</span></div>
<div><a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/platform/x86/apple-gmux.c?id=d6fa7588fd7a8def4c747c0c574ce85d453e3788" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk709983" previewremoved="true" style="font-size: 12pt;">https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/platform/x86/apple-gmux.c?id=d6fa7588fd7a8def4c747c0c574ce85d453e3788</a><br>
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<div>and functional since kernel version 4.16.</div>
<div>So i tried to install that from Debian stretch-backports as described at <a href="https://backports.debian.org" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk17826" previewremoved="true">https://backports.debian.org</a>, but gave problems <span style="font-size: 12pt;">with
nvidia-driver which i always had installed for the internal video card of which lspci says: "</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">NVIDIA Corporation GK107M [GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition] (rev a1)".</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">So i tried things like <span>apt install -t stretch-backports linux-image-4.16.0-0.bpo.1 nvidia-driver.</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Because it </span>complained<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> about missing dependencies and aptitude came with a huge amount of possible "solutions" of which none seemed to make sense, i started adding whatever "is not going
to be installed" complaint to the apt line an got sucked into quite a dependency hell up to mesa conflicts and at the end when it finally installed with all dependencies satisfied, the computer could not boot anymore.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It seemed like booting the kernel and some init stuff up-to actual nvidia driver use (possibly by Xorg) and then a hard freeze of the computer.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It took me a very long time to revive it again via Debian installer's rescue mode and manually determining, downloading (on another computer) and installing packages from USB Flash with dpkg -i until i finally got to this
list and got the computer booting again:</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">glx-alternative-mesa_0.7.4_amd64.deb</span><br>
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<div>glx-alternative-nvidia_0.7.4_amd64.deb</div>
<div>glx-diversions_0.7.4_amd64.deb</div>
<div>libegl1-nvidia_375.82-1_deb9u1_amd64.deb</div>
<div>libegl-nvidia0_375.82-1_deb9u1_amd64.deb</div>
<div>libgl1-nvidia-glx_375.82-1_deb9u1_amd64.deb</div>
<div>libgldispatch0-nvidia_375.82-1_deb9u1_amd64.deb</div>
<div>libnvidia-eglcore_375.82-1_deb9u1_amd64.deb</div>
<div>libnvidia-glcore_375.82-1_deb9u1_amd64.deb</div>
<div>libnvidia-ml1_375.82-1_deb9u1_amd64.deb</div>
<div>linux-base_4.5_all.deb</div>
<div>linux-headers-4.9.0-6-amd64_4.9.88-1+deb9u1_amd64.deb</div>
<div>linux-image-4.9.0-6-amd64_4.9.88-1+deb9u1_amd64.deb</div>
<div>linux-image-amd64_4.9+80+deb9u4_amd64.deb</div>
<div>linux-kbuild-4.9_4.9.88-1+deb9u1_amd64.deb</div>
<div>nvidia-alternative_375.82-1_deb9u1_amd64.deb</div>
<div>nvidia-driver_375.82-1_deb9u1_amd64.deb</div>
<div>nvidia-driver-bin_375.82-1_deb9u1_amd64.deb</div>
<div>nvidia-driver-libs_375.82-1_deb9u1_amd64.deb</div>
<div>nvidia-installer-cleanup_20151021+4_amd64.deb</div>
<div>nvidia-kernel-common_20151021+4_amd64.deb</div>
<div>nvidia-kernel-dkms_375.82-1_deb9u1_amd64.deb</div>
<div>nvidia-kernel-support_375.82-1_deb9u1_amd64.deb</div>
<div>nvidia-legacy-check_375.82-1_deb9u1_amd64.deb</div>
<div>nvidia-modprobe_384.111-2_deb9u1_amd64.deb</div>
<div>nvidia-support_20151021+4_amd64.deb</div>
<div>nvidia-vdpau-driver_375.82-1_deb9u1_amd64.deb</div>
<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">update-glx_0.7.4_amd64.deb</span><br>
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<div>xserver-xorg-video-nouveau_1.0.13-3_amd64.deb</div>
<div>xserver-xorg-video-nvidia_375.82-1_deb9u1_amd64.deb</div>
<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Oh and before that i ran <span>apt purge glx-alternative-mesa glx-alternative-nvidia glx-diversions libegl-nvidia0 libegl1-nvidia libgl1-nvidia-glx libgldispatch0-nvidia libglx-nvidia0 libnvidia-eglcore libnvidia-glcore libnvidia-ml1
linux-headers-4.9.0-3-amd64 linux-headers-4.9.0-3-common linux-image-4.9.0-3-amd64 linux-kbuild-4.9 nvidia-alternative nvidia-detect nvidia-driver-bin nvidia-driver-libs nvidia-driver nvidia-egl-common nvidia-egl-icd nvidia-installer-cleanup nvidia-kernel-common
nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-kernel-support nvidia-legacy-check nvidia-modprobe nvidia-support nvidia-vdpau-driver update-glx xserver-xorg-video-nouveau xserver-xorg-video-nvidia nvidia-legacy-check</span></span><br>
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<div>So in the end back where i started and still no 4.16 kernel.</div>
<div>I would like to thank you for making nvidia-driver available and also via stretch-backports, but would you be so kind to also describe what i should do to install it properly?</div>
<div>I apologize if it is described somewhere but missed it, please point me to it.</div>
<div>Thanks a lot in advance! </div>
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