Bug#800554: nvidia-kernel-dkms: kernel module won't build for 3.16.0-4-amd64 (missing rule in Makefile)

[Luca Boccassi]

On 3 October 2015 at 02:00, Norman Ramsey <nr at cs.tufts.edu> wrote:
>  > >   - The X server will not start.  I have attached the Xorg.0.log.
>  >
>  > Now that is quite strange, I've never seen that error:
>  >
>  > /dev/dri/card0: failed to set DRM interface version 1.4: Inappropriate
>  > ioctl for device [   260.044] (--) PCI:*(0:1:0:0) 10de:1401:1043:8520 rev
>  > 161, Mem @ 0xf6000000/16777216, 0xe0000000/268435456, 0xf0000000/33554432,
>  > I/O @ 0x0000e000/128, BIOS @ 0x????????/524288
>  >
>  > The only thing that comes up in Google is bug #764639. I don't suppose
>  > the blacklisting of nouveau is missing? Having the output of reportbug
>  > might help.
>  >
>  > Also trying manually from a TTY to load the module and start X might
>  > give more clues.
>  >
>  > But I have to stress that this is a bit uncharted territory, I have
>  > never tried a setup with different archs for kernel and userspace, so I
>  > am not sure I'll be able to help. I can try :-)
>
> OK, I have resolved the problem, and you can close this bug.
>
> What I did was more aggressively install amd64 packages.  I'm afraid I
> did this somewhat at random, but at least I can show you the final
> configuration.  You will receive another mail from me sent with
> reportbug, but I can't see where that shows which packages are amd64
> and which are i386.  So that information is appended for this email.
>
> Again, thank you for all your help!

No problem!

I guess one of the GL libraries needed by the desktop manager was missing.

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi