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

[David Baron]

On יום שני, 19 בדצמבר 2016 13:26:04 IST Luca Boccassi wrote:
> 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

The 304.134-1 (Did not try to downgrade) compiles fine over 4.9 rc8 kernel 
(dkms).
Loads, runs the same, same bug.