Bug#787582: VDPAU needed

[Luca Boccassi]

On Sun, 2015-10-18 at 00:23 +0200, Julien Aubin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> The problem is that until now you guaranteed that NVidia drivers could
> be installed for Maxwell GPU owners using your experimental repo, and
> now this is no longer the case.
> 
> 
> Cf. documentation :
> https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers
> 
> 
> 
> I perfectly understand your point but this is a problem for anyone
> upgrading their GPU. So until the moment glx-alternative-nvidia is in
> backports repo could you please revert to 352.41 ?

Hi Julien,

Sorry for these troubles.

Unfortunately we are facing a rather nasty bug with devices permissions,
which might have bad implications, and we don't have a definitive
comprehensive solution yet. So for a little while longer things in
unstable/experimental will be in a bit of flux. After all, that's what
unstable and experimental are for :-)

Meanwhile, users can either (as Andreas already suggested) install all
the binary packages of glx-alternatives from sid (glx-diversions,
glx-alternative-nvidia, glx-alternative-mesa) or pin the nvidia-driver
to the previous version, 352.41. This can be done with "sudo apt-mark
hold <package-name>". This way your update/dist-upgrade won't be broken.

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi