Bug#813541: nvidia-graphics-drivers: Huge problems 'upgrading' to legacy version

[Manuel Bilderbeek]

Source: nvidia-graphics-drivers
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I did my daily testing dist-upgrade just now, and I noticed I got a version of
the nvidia driver that is not going to work with my old GeForce 9600. I got a
nice pop up that the driver is not going to work, so I chose 'No', to not
install it.

But afterwards, many packages of 352 were actually installed after all.

I tried to install all the proper 340xx legacy packages, but as they didn't
conflict with the normal packages, all the normal stuff was also still
installed. Apparently that gave a lot of problems, because after booting I only
got a very blinky text console and no X.

After manually removing all packages of the 352 version and changing 'nvidia'
in /etc/modules-load.d/nvidia.conf to 'nvidia-legacy-340xx' I finally got a
working X11 again....

Why did I have to do all that manual work to get X11 working again?
Which package owns that nvidia.conf anyway? I couldn't find it...

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)