Bug#802246: Can't modprobe -r nvidia, rmmod works

[Luca Boccassi]

On Mon, 2015-10-19 at 11:32 +0300, Alexander Monakov wrote:
> Hi, I initially triaged this bug when it was reported against bumblebee.
> 
> I'm not clear why you stopped providing "alias nvidia nvidia-current"
> (and likewise for -uvm module). I believe providing that alias is
> sufficient to solve this issue. With your current scheme, "modprobe
> nvidia" works but "modprobe -r nvidia" fails. Why is that desirable?
> Why was the alias removed?

Hello Alexander,

The problem was that the nvidia's modprobe conf was moved to
glx-alternative and it was not configured (since on a bumblebee setup
glx is served by mesa). This was fixed by Andreas with a new diversion
specifically for bumblebee setups. I'm not seeing issues now with
modprobe -r nvidia.

The reason for the change was that the old version broke when
nvidia-current and nvidia-legacy-YYYxx were installed.

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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