Bug#883637: xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-legacy-340xx: No alternative/symlink created for nvidia_drv.so

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2017-12-06 04:57, Jayen Ashar wrote:
> Thanks Andreas.
> 
> I had tried `sudo update-alternatives --config nvidia_drv.so` but that didn't have any alternatives.  I didn't know about `update-glx`.

That's new in stretch. It's a wrapper around update-alternatives for the
glx and nvidia alternatives, since they need to trigger some additional
actions after switching the glx provider ...

> I just upgraded from debian 8 jessie.  I forgot to mention that when I opened this report.
> 
> I have tried to uninstall or downgrade the `nvidia-alternative` package.  I would like to keep the `nvidia-kernel-3.16.0-4-amd64` package I have installed, but I/aptitude can't find a set of packages that doesn't create a conflict.

That package is only useful with the jessie kernel.
We don't provide the prebuilt kernel module packages any more, please
switch to nvidia-legacy-340xx-kernel-dkms and don't forget to install
the kernel header meta-package linux-headers-amd64 (or build the module
packages manually with module-assistant from
nvidia-legacy-340xx-kernel-source)

> I have now run the `update-glx` command you suggested, but it doesn't appear to have affected `/usr/lib/xorg/modules`.

Please run

    reportbug -N 883637

to collect again the system state (alternatives etc.) after that command.


Thanks

Andreas