review request for the debconf templates used by the nvidia graphics driver [non-free]

Jonathan Nieder jrnieder at gmail.com
Tue Jul 10 15:30:21 UTC 2012


Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> On 2012-07-10 16:28, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>>> Andreas Beckmann wrote:

>>>> Template: nvidia-support/removed-but-enabled-in-xorg-conf
>> Actually, couldn't this end up popping up during a normal uninstall?
>
> Isn't it supposed to do this?

My mistake.  I fixated on the part about purging nvidia-kernel-common,
but the main point of the message is to get people to fix their
xorg.conf.  So yeah, this is all as intended.

[...]
>> By the way, what configuration interferes that this purge avoids?  It
>> sounds like a bug.
>
> /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-kernel-common.conf: blacklist nouveau
>
> Patches welcome :-)

Would putting the file in /lib/modprobe.d be acceptable?  (See
/usr/share/doc/kmod/changelog.gz.)

Thanks,
Jonathan



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