Bug#859684: nvidia-legacy-304xx-kernel-dkms: xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-legacy-304xx not installed

[Luca Boccassi]

On Wed, 2017-04-05 at 20:02 -0700, Bill Hassard wrote:
> apt-get was run with no options added to the command line. I suspect 
> that "recommends"  chain is broken somewhere,
> 
> Regards -- Bill

Don't think so, both apt and aptitude prompt to install both:

$ sudo apt install nvidia-legacy-304xx-kernel-dkms
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libgl1-nvidia-legacy-304xx-glx libgl1-nvidia-legacy-304xx-glx:i386
libnvidia-legacy-304xx-cfg1
  libnvidia-legacy-304xx-cfg1:i386 libnvidia-legacy-304xx-glcore
libnvidia-legacy-304xx-glcore:i386
  libnvidia-legacy-304xx-ml1 nvidia-legacy-304xx-alternative nvidia-
legacy-304xx-driver
  nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver-bin nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver-libs
nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver-libs:i386
  nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver-libs-i386:i386 nvidia-legacy-304xx-kernel-
support
  nvidia-legacy-304xx-vdpau-driver nvidia-settings-legacy-304xx
xserver-xorg-legacy
  xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-legacy-304xx
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libgl1-nvidia-legacy-304xx-glx libgl1-nvidia-legacy-304xx-glx:i386
libnvidia-legacy-304xx-cfg1
  libnvidia-legacy-304xx-cfg1:i386 libnvidia-legacy-304xx-glcore
libnvidia-legacy-304xx-glcore:i386
  libnvidia-legacy-304xx-ml1 nvidia-legacy-304xx-alternative nvidia-
legacy-304xx-driver
  nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver-bin nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver-libs
nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver-libs:i386
  nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver-libs-i386:i386 nvidia-legacy-304xx-kernel-
dkms
  nvidia-legacy-304xx-kernel-support nvidia-legacy-304xx-vdpau-driver
nvidia-settings-legacy-304xx
  xserver-xorg-legacy xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-legacy-304xx
0 upgraded, 19 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 24.1 MB of archives.
After this operation, 118 MB of additional disk space will be used.


$ sudo aptitude install nvidia-legacy-304xx-kernel-dkms
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libgl1-nvidia-legacy-304xx-glx{a} libgl1-nvidia-legacy-304xx-
glx:i386{a} 
  libnvidia-legacy-304xx-cfg1{a} libnvidia-legacy-304xx-cfg1:i386{a} 
  libnvidia-legacy-304xx-glcore{a} libnvidia-legacy-304xx-
glcore:i386{a} 
  libnvidia-legacy-304xx-ml1{a} nvidia-legacy-304xx-alternative{a}
nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver{a} 
  nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver-bin{a} nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver-libs{a} 
  nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver-libs:i386{a} nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver-
libs-i386:i386{a} 
  nvidia-legacy-304xx-kernel-dkms nvidia-legacy-304xx-kernel-
support{a} 
  nvidia-legacy-304xx-vdpau-driver{a} nvidia-settings-legacy-304xx{a}
xserver-xorg-legacy{a} 
  xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-legacy-304xx{a} 
0 packages upgraded, 19 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not
upgraded.
Need to get 24.1 MB of archives. After unpacking 118 MB will be used.


Anyway the wiki page is fixed so it won't be a problem anymore. Thanks
for reporting it.

> On 05/04/17 04:36 PM, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > On Wed, 2017-04-05 at 14:37 -0700, Bill Hassard wrote:
> > > Package: nvidia-legacy-304xx-kernel-dkms
> > > Version: 304.134-0~deb8u1
> > > Severity: normal
> > > 
> > > Dear Maintainer,
> > > 
> > > I installed nvidia-legacy-304xx-kernel-dkms on a new Jessie
> > > install
> > > following
> > > the procedure in the NvidiaGraphicsDriver wiki. The required
> > > xsever-
> > > xorg-video-
> > > nvidia-legacy-304xx package was not installed and video did not
> > > function. lsmod
> > > showed the driver loaded with Used by 0. After manually
> > > installing
> > > the xserver-
> > > xorg-video-nvidia-304xx package everthing works as it should.
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > The correct top-level package to install the nvidia-driver (or
> > nvidia-
> > legacy-304xx-driver or nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver), not the dkms
> > one
> > which just has the kernel modules. This will pull in everything
> > that's
> > needed.
> > 
> > Also I suspect apt-get ran with --no-install-recommends, as the
> > dkms
> > package recommends the nvidia-driver one.
> > 
> > I have now corrected the wiki page to suggest nvidia-driver instead
> > of
> > nvidia-kernel-dkms. So closing this bug now.
> > 
> > Kind regards,
> > Luca Boccassi
> 
> 
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