[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#556749: nvidia-kernel-source: update initramfs on upgrade

[Russ Allbery]

Szymon Janc <szymon at janc.net.pl> writes:

> Some time ago I was experiencing issues with long driver (not with every
> version) initialization which caused KDM failed to start or (less
> frequently) KDM started but my monitor was turning off (I had to switch
> to console and back to turn it on again).

> Including nvidia module in initramfs solved all my issues at that time
> (module was loaded ~5 seconds earlier). Yet, on driver upgrade if I
> forgot to update initramfs manually, xserver didn't start because of
> nvidia module version mismatch.

Oh!  Interesting!  We're having that problem again right now, and it
didn't occur to me that including the module in initramfs might fix it.
We may actually want to recommend that people do this.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>