Bug#884114: nvidia-support: rmmod instructions are out of date

Matthew Gabeler-Lee cheetah at fastcat.org
Mon Dec 11 15:12:43 UTC 2017


Package: nvidia-support
Version: 20151021+4
Severity: minor

The instructions for how to correct a mismatched nvidia kernel module are
out of date.  Running "rmmod nvidia" is no longer sufficient, it seems that
you need to now do "rmmod nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia".

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'oldstable'), (490, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages nvidia-support depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.61

nvidia-support recommends no packages.

nvidia-support suggests no packages.

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