Bug#849452: nvidia-legacy-173xx-kernel-source cannot be build on kernel 4.8

[Luca Boccassi]

Control: tags -1 wontfix
Control: close -1

On Tue, 2016-12-27 at 11:10 +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> Package: nvidia-legacy-173xx-kernel-source
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> it looks like kernel 4.8 and old nvidia sources 173xx do not work together.
> As I am using an old nvidia card (GF5700 Ultra), I need 173xx kernel module. But sadly it 
> cannot be build. I do not know, if you can do anything with it, but it would be nice, if youcould take an eye on it. 
> 
> I have to tell, this problem occurs since a year, but maybe you did not know about it since today.
> 
> Thank you very much for reading this.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Hans
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: stretch/sid
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
> 
> Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Hi,

Sorry but the 173xx series has been deprecated by Nvidia so it's no
longer maintained and has been removed a while ago from
unstable/testing.

Even if the kernel module build were to be made compatible with the
kernel version in testing/unstable, 173xx does not support the current
(or previous) Xorg server version, so it would be useless anyway

See:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=754250
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=740535

With that card you have 2 choices:

1) Try your luck with nouveau
2) Install Debian 7 (Wheezy) where 173 has shipped and is compatible
with kernel and xorg

Note that given upstream has discontinued it there will be no fixes for
security vulnerabilities (and I think there's already been a few since).

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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