Bug#840342: [ace-of-penguins] Freecell No Longer Runs, Nvidia Legacy-304xx video driver

[Luca Boccassi]

On Mon, 19 Dec 2016 14:56:33 +0200 David Baron <dbaron770 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On יום ×©× ×™, 19 בדצמבר 2016 10:44:13 IST Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> > Hi David,
> > 
> > On 2016-12-17 19:39, David Baron wrote:
> > > Program has been running fine. Bug should have been closed before.
> > 
> > So this was unrelated to the 304xx driver? Closing the bug now.
> > 
> > > Have to try that 304.134, though. 304xx has been a catastrophe on Sid with
> > > no orderly downgrade successful for me.
> > 
> > That was due to lack of xserver 1.19 support in the old versions?
> > 
> > Since you are the only known user of the 304xx driver (none of the
> > Debian NVIDIA Maintainers still has compatible hardware) it would be
> > great if you could test the 304.134 packages we have now in sid - it
> > supports the current Xserver in testing. Also testing with Linux 3.9
> > would be appreciated (currently in experimental), since we anticipate
> > that a small patch for the kernel module may still be needed.
> > 
> The problems with 304xx  from kde kwin compositing still persist, unchanged 
> (at least as I can see) from the previous Sid version. So the patch may well 
> be needed. If there is going to be a 304xx, someone among the maintainers 
> needs hardware to test it to avoid a recurrance of what happened now. I would 
> not mind simply using Nouveau but there is the same issue and this one is 
> "ours." Previous version simply hung up. 
> 
> I am running Sid, 4.8 kernel. Do you mean the 4.9 kernel?
> After rearranging the partitions from the unworkable ones given by the 
> installation, I can and do keep multiple kernels around so I could presumably 
> test his. Let me know when it is patched and ready to test.

Yes the 4.9 kernel might have a problem. It would be great if you could
test it as-is without the patch (304.134-1), and then if the kernel
module does not load then we know we have to patch it (less churn this
way).

Thanks!

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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