Bug#827391: nvidia-driver: Add support to Nvidia GeForce 10xx GPUs w/ driver 367.27

Sun Jul 10 16:56:55 UTC 2016

> Yes it should be made clearer, if you are on amd64 and want the 32 bit
> libraries, not all packages should be installed.
> 
> Basically you'll want to install libgl1-nvidia-glx-i386 (or
> nvidia-driver-libs-i386 depending on the branch) and their dependencies.
> 
> I've updated the wiki.

Thanks! But that isn't the problem.
fyi, I've switched the test system from i386 to amd64, but the basic problem
remains.

Maybe I should also tell you some things about my system setup:
The test system is Jessie/amd64 on a USB stick. It is currently plugged into a
computer with a GT218 chip. I know this isn't supportd by 367 anymore, but I
merely want to make sure the driver installation works fine, because later I
want to plug the USB stick into a computer with a GTX 1070 card. I only have
access to this actual target computer sporadically, hence the test system.

What I did was to install Jessie's nvidia-driver and the X-Server works. I
wanted to use this package list as a template for what I actually need from
367:

# dpkg -l | grep nvidia
ii  glx-alternative-nvidia                0.5.1                                amd64        allows the selection of NVIDIA as GLX provider
ii  libegl1-nvidia:amd64                  340.96-1                             amd64        NVIDIA binary EGL libraries
ii  libgl1-nvidia-glx:amd64               340.96-1                             amd64        NVIDIA binary OpenGL libraries
ii  libgles1-nvidia:amd64                 340.96-1                             amd64        NVIDIA binary OpenGL|ES 1.x libraries
ii  libgles2-nvidia:amd64                 340.96-1                             amd64        NVIDIA binary OpenGL|ES 2.x libraries
ii  libnvidia-eglcore:amd64               340.96-1                             amd64        NVIDIA binary EGL core libraries
ii  libnvidia-ml1:amd64                   340.96-1                             amd64        NVIDIA Management Library (NVML) runtime library
ii  nvidia-alternative                    340.96-1                             amd64        allows the selection of NVIDIA as GLX provider
ii  nvidia-driver                         340.96-1                             amd64        NVIDIA metapackage
ii  nvidia-driver-bin                     340.96-1                             amd64        NVIDIA driver support binaries
ii  nvidia-installer-cleanup              20141201+1                           amd64        cleanup after driver installation with the nvidia-installer
ii  nvidia-kernel-common                  20141201+1                           amd64        NVIDIA binary kernel module support files
ii  nvidia-kernel-dkms                    340.96-1                             amd64        NVIDIA binary kernel module DKMS source
ii  nvidia-modprobe                       340.46-1                             amd64        utility to load NVIDIA kernel modules and create device nodes
ii  nvidia-settings                       340.46-2                             amd64        tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
ii  nvidia-support                        20141201+1                           amd64        NVIDIA binary graphics driver support files
ii  nvidia-vdpau-driver:amd64             340.96-1                             amd64        Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix - NVIDIA driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-nvidia             340.96-1                             amd64        NVIDIA binary Xorg driver

Since apt's dependency resolution isn't available with the self-made packages,
I then wanted to replace all these packages at once via dpkg, which failed due
to dependency problems. To track these down, I wanted to atomize the process.
nvidia-driver seemed to be a good starting point, however it complains during
the installation:

# dpkg -i nvidia-driver_367.27-1_amd64.deb
dpkg: regarding nvidia-driver_367.27-1_amd64.deb containing nvidia-driver, pre-dependency problem:
 nvidia-driver pre-depends on nvidia-legacy-check (>= 343)
  nvidia-legacy-check is not installed.

dpkg: error processing archive nvidia-driver_367.27-1_amd64.deb (--install):
 pre-dependency problem - not installing nvidia-driver
Errors were encountered while processing:
 nvidia-driver_367.27-1_amd64.deb

So I successfully installed nvidia-legacy-check first:

# dpkg -i nvidia-legacy-check_367.27-1_amd64.deb
Selecting previously unselected package nvidia-legacy-check.
(Reading database ... 131797 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack nvidia-legacy-check_367.27-1_amd64.deb ...
*** The following unsupported devices are present in the machine:
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [ION] [10de:0a64] (rev a2)
Unpacking nvidia-legacy-check (367.27-1) ...
Setting up nvidia-legacy-check (367.27-1) ...

Then I tried to install nvidia-driver, which failed:

# dpkg -i nvidia-driver_367.27-1_amd64.deb
(Reading database ... 131811 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack nvidia-driver_367.27-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking nvidia-driver (367.27-1) over (340.96-1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive nvidia-driver_367.27-1_amd64.deb (--install):
 trying to overwrite '/DEBIAN/control', which is also in package nvidia-legacy-check 367.27-1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 nvidia-driver_367.27-1_amd64.deb

>From the output I believe Andreas is right, and that something went wrong
during the package-building process:

> something went amiss when building the packages, the /DEBIAN directory
> should never be part of the package that gets installed in the
> filesystem (it just belongs into the control archive).

Now there actually is a /DEBIAN directory on my system:

# ls -l /DEBIAN/
total 24
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  702 Jul  9 19:45 control
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  480 Jul  9 19:45 md5sums
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  206 Jul  9 19:45 postrm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4473 Jul  9 19:45 preinst
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1335 Jul  9 19:45 templates

I should probably note, that although I have some experience with svn in
general and that I've (re)built packages with debuild before, this is the first
time I use debian/rules and svn-buildpackage. So I don't fully understand what
I'm doing here, which is why I strictly stuck to the wiki-instructions.