Bug#626279: Displays black screen when binutils-gold is installed

[Yuri D'Elia]

Package: nvidia-kernel-dkms
Version: 270.41.06-1
Severity: normal

nvidia-kernel-dkms dropped the Conflicts with binutils-gold some time ago,
but it still seems that using gold with nvidia-kernel-dkms does not work.

I tried installing binutils-gold package (2.21.51.20110421-4). The driver
builds fine, but then all I get is a black screen. Xorg is completely
unresponsive, zapping doesn't work, switching consoles is impossible.
The monitor doesn't even switch to the native resolution: it simply turns
black. xorg.log is empty.

I see there is already a bug (see #617391) reported on binutils-gold, but I
feel that nvidia-kernel-dkms should conflict with gold with at least a
versioned dependency until someone gets a working module out of it.

I'm using a Quadro NVS 290 (G86) -- if that matters, but I got the same
problem with other quadro cards.