Bug#813312: xserver-xorg-video-nvidia: GDM crashes on start

[Luca Boccassi]

On Feb 29, 2016 18:28, "Victor Porton" <porton at narod.ru> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2016-02-29 at 16:36 +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote:
>>
>> Control: tag -1 moreinfo
>> Control: severity -1 normal
>>
>> On Sun, 2016-01-31 at 15:49 +0200, Victor Porton wrote:
>>>
>>> Package: xserver-xorg-video-nvidia
>>> Version: 340.96-4
>>> Severity: important
>>>
>>> Dear Maintainer,
>>>
>>> With Nouveau Gnome works well.
>>>
>>> After installing xserver-xorg-video-nvidia it is impossible to start
GDM.
>>> At start of GDM I see "Something went wrong" error message and the
system
>>> is frozen.
>>>
>>> My video card:
>>> GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3
>>>
>>> My motherboard:
>>> Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. H67A-UD3H
>>>
>>> -- System Information:
>>> Debian Release: stretch/sid
>>>   APT prefers testing
>>>   APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500,
'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
>>> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>>>
>>> Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
>>> Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
>>> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
>>> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>>>
>>> Versions of packages xserver-xorg-video-nvidia depends on:
>>> ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                  1.5.58
>>> ii  libc6                                  2.21-7
>>> pn  libgl1-nvidia-glx                      <none>
>>> ii  nvidia-alternative                     340.96-4
>>> ii  nvidia-installer-cleanup               20151021+1
>>> pn  nvidia-support                         <none>
>>> ii  xserver-xorg-core [xorg-video-abi-19]  2:1.17.3-2
>>>
>>> Versions of packages xserver-xorg-video-nvidia recommends:
>>> pn  nvidia-driver        <none>
>>> ii  nvidia-kernel-dkms   340.96-4
>>> pn  nvidia-settings      <none>
>>> ii  nvidia-vdpau-driver  340.96-4
>>>
>>> Versions of packages xserver-xorg-video-nvidia suggests:
>>> ii  nvidia-kernel-dkms  340.96-4
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The system report says you do not have nvidia-driver installed. Also you
>> said you just installed that single package. Is that intentional? You
>> need to install nvidia-driver for the stack to work.
>>
>> The nvidia-driver meta-package will pull in everything you need,
>> including the GL libraries.
>> Please install it and report back.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Luca Boccassi
>>
>
> I tried to install nvidia-driver. Due install it says that my video card
is no longer supported. So I interrupted the install.
>
> As my card is unsupported, please mark this bug INVALID or WONTFIX and
close it.

Hi,

If your card is not supported by the stable release, install the legacy
driver:

nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver

Nvidia maintains legacy releases for a few years to support older hardware
that is dropped by the main release. We support it through the legacy
packages.

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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