Bug#787582: VDPAU needed

[Julien Aubin]

Do you also have the nasty bug ID ? I could try to reproduce it (and maybe
give a clue about some fix...)

2015-10-18 14:30 GMT+02:00 Julien Aubin <julien.aubin at gmail.com>:

> No problem I've pushed a WA in the bug report. If you could put it in the
> wiki. I never managed to create an account on it
> Le 18 oct. 2015 14:23, "Luca Boccassi" <luca.boccassi at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
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