nvidia kernel in backports

[Ben Hutchings]

On Fri, 2014-09-12 at 00:58 -0700, Vincent Cheng wrote:
> Hi Brian,
> 
> On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Brian May
> <brian at microcomaustralia.com.au> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > The nvidia-kernel-dkms in backports won't build against the 3.14 kernel in
> > backports, and the nvidia-kernel-3.14-0.bpo.1-amd64 package appears to be
> > broken (undefined symbols).
> >
> > Just wondering if there are any plans to fix this? Or any known work around?
> 
> Erhmm, it's on my todo list? Ok, that stopped being a good excuse a
> long time ago...
> 
> I don't know how much work it would be to update the current
> wheezy-bpo version of nvidia-graphics-drivers to what I uploaded to
> sid a few weeks back. I'm also not sure if there's a specific reason
> why Andreas left the wheezy-bpo branch with 319.xx instead of keeping
> it up to date. The pkg-nvidia team is woefully short on manpower, so
> if you'd like to help prepare and test a backport, that'd definitely
> be appreciated.

Note that Linux 3.16 is in unstable and coming to wheezy-backports
shortly.  So please make sure that the nvidia backport works with that.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
I'm always amazed by the number of people who take up solipsism because
they heard someone else explain it. - E*Borg on alt.fan.pratchett
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