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

[Luca Boccassi]

On Wed, 2016-06-15 at 19:34 +0200, Julien Aubin wrote:
> OK, would it be possible to push tar 1.29 to backports ?

That's a question for the tar maintainers I'm afraid.

You can create the tarball manually, by downloading the .run files for
all 3 architectures, moving them into a directory called
"nvidia-graphics-drivers-367.27.orig" and then creating a .tar.gz from
it.

> 2016-06-15 19:29 GMT+02:00 Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi at gmail.com>:
> 
> > On Wed, 2016-06-15 at 19:22 +0200, Julien Aubin wrote:
> > > OK thanks a lot. You cannot do anything even in the experimental repo ?
> >
> > No, in fact some of the uploads to be approved are to experimental.
> > Every time there is a new binary package, the FTP masters have to
> > manually review and approve before it's uploaded.
> >
> > > For the severity I'm OK with important, however in the coming months it
> > > will be more and more critical.
> >
> > I understand, but the only thing that a critical severity would achieve
> > is having the drivers which are working fine on users not on 1070/1080
> > removed from the distribution, and that's not fair to them. As you can
> > see on the subversion repository, newer releases are ready withing a day
> > or two max after Nvidia publishes them, but we can't control the NEW
> > queue, so there is nothing else we can do as maintainers.
> >
> > Please do try to build 367 locally and give feedback.
> >
> > > 2016-06-15 19:20 GMT+02:00 Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi at gmail.com>:
> > >
> > > > Control: severity -1 important
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, 2016-06-15 at 18:23 +0200, Julien Aubin wrote:
> > > > > Package: nvidia-driver
> > > > > Version: 352.79-1~bpo8+1
> > > > > Severity: critical
> > > > > Justification: breaks the whole system
> > > > >
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > >
> > > > > GPUs GeForce 10xx are out now for several weeks, and the first stable
> > > > Linux
> > > > > driver series which support them is 367.27 available from there :
> > > > > http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/104284/en-us
> > > > >
> > > > > Note this is a LTS branch for the drivers.
> > > > >
> > > > > Users of this hardware will be unable to reach any usable X session,
> > nor
> > > > > using
> > > > > any graphical mode. The bug is critical as this hardware will become
> > more
> > > > > and
> > > > > more widespread over time.
> > > >
> > > > Sorry but this bug is not critical nor grave, as it clearly only affect
> > > > a given specific configuration, and not all (and not even the majority)
> > > > of the users of the package. So it would be a grave disservice for the
> > > > vast majority of users to remove the package from the archive and the
> > > > distribution, for whom the driver works just fine, only because it's
> > too
> > > > old to work with some new hardware. Hence the downgrading.
> > > >
> > > > > So could you please :
> > > > > 1/ at least upload this driver version on experimental repo so that
> > it is
> > > > > installable using jessie w/ backports, testing and sid ?
> > > > > 2/ integrate this driver for stretch release, which seems reasonable
> > > > since
> > > > > the
> > > > > development window is still 6 months away ?
> > > > >
> > > > > Please notify me when you've packaged it to experimental so that I
> > could
> > > > > give
> > > > > it a test with my current hardware. Once I've upgraded to a GeForce
> > 10xx
> > > > > I'll
> > > > > perform the test again with various games.
> > > > >
> > > > > Many thanks and regards
> > > >
> > > > The newer releases are all packaged and ready, but the uploads are in
> > > > the new queue, in some cases since February. There is literally nothing
> > > > we as maintainers can do until they have been manually approved by the
> > > > FTP masters.
> > > >
> > > > Meanwhile, you can build the package from our SVN repositories
> > following
> > > > the instructions on the wiki:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Building_newer_releases_from_SVN
> > > >
> > > > Feedback on the current state of the packages in SVN is greatly
> > > > appreciated. Feel free to open bugs if you find any issue with them.
> > > >
> > > > Kind regards,
> > > > Luca Boccassi
> > > >
> >
> >
> >


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