Bug#845103: Black screen after installing nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver (testing)

[Luca Boccassi]

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On Sun, 2016-11-20 at 19:03 +0700, Michael Haag wrote:
> Package: nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver
> Version: testing/stretch
> 
> Sorry I can't be more specific, but my system was rendered unusable
> after installing the above (recommended) driver.
> 
> The first time I attempted an upgrade from jessie to stretch. During the
> upgrade I was prompted to install the above legacy driver. I did so, but
> apt appeared to ALSO install the current nvidia-driver and related
> packages. After rebooting I was left with a black screen, no mouse or
> keyboard.

Hi,

Having both the legacy and current drivers installed is actually
supported. You can switch between the two with:

sudo update-glx nvidia

And then picking the one you need and rebooting (or manually killing
XORG and reload the other kernel module).

> I tried to do a clean install of stretch relying on the default nouveau
> driver. All was well. I then tried installing the legacy driver. This
> time apt seemed to install all the correct packages, nothing from
> nvidia-current. But it did seem to install the kernel headers for 4.8
> rather than 4.7 which was the running kernel. End result was the same.
> Black screen, no mouse no keyboard.
> 
> I believe this may be the same bug as #833895
> 
> The graphics card in my system is a nvidia 9600GT. Never experienced
> this problem on this system with Wheezy or Jessie.
> 
> I hope this is helpful.

Did it work after installing the correct headers?

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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