Bug#620327: Package: nvidia-kernel-dkms 260.19.44-1

[Andreas Beckmann]

Please uninstall nvidia-kernel-2.6.32-5-686 (and the other
nvidia-kernel-* packages can be removed as well).

Thanks.

Andreas


The actual bug seems to be that the prebuilt module
    /lib/modules/`uname -r`/nvidia/nvidia.ko
takes precedence over the dkms module
    /lib/modules/`uname -r`/updates/dkms/nvidia.ko
I need to verify this and see if anything can be improved in that setting.


On 2011-04-01 07:52, Alexandr Bravo wrote:
> Package: nvidia-kernel-dkms 260.19.44-1
> 
> In testing distribution after last update package nvidia-kernel-dkms
> 260.19.44-1 produces NVIDIA kernel module with wrong version number inside.
> As a result Xorg can't start with nvidia because old kernel module version
> 195.* mismatches with version 260.* of other packages.

> ii  nvidia-kernel-2.6.30-1-686
> 185.18.36-2+2.6.30-6             NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux
> 2.6.30-1-686
> ii  nvidia-kernel-2.6.32-5-686
> 195.36.31+2+4+2.6.32-24          NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux
> 2.6.32-5-686
> ii  nvidia-kernel-2.6.32-trunk-686
> 190.53-1+2.6.32-5                NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux
> 2.6.32-trunk-686
> ii  nvidia-kernel-common
> 20110213+1                       NVIDIA binary kernel module support files
> ii  nvidia-kernel-dkms
> 260.19.44-1                      NVIDIA binary kernel module DKMS source
> ii  nvidia-kernel-source
> 260.19.44-1                      NVIDIA binary kernel module source
> # modinfo /lib/modules/`uname -r`/updates/dkms/nvidia.ko
> filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/updates/dkms/nvidia.ko
> alias:          char-major-195-*
> ...
> 
> Looks like this string is not ok:  alias:          char-major-195-*
> I guess it should be 260 there.

No. It's just a coincidence that an old upstream version (195.36.31)
matches the device major number (which is the same for all driver releases).

Andreas