Bug#856355: nvidia-driver: no longer works

[Luca Boccassi]

On Tue, 2017-02-28 at 14:30 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2017-02-28 13:15:43 +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > Please try to reinstall the latest version of the driver and report
> > back, and they should work.
> 
> I've installed the latest version and rebooted, and everything is OK.
> 
> So, the problem was due to the fact that the module wasn't
> automatically rebuilt after the kernel upgrade as usual.
> 
> > Next time, use dkms to remove the module and rebuild it:
> > 
> > sudo dkms remove nvidia-current/3xx.xx -k x.y.z
> > sudo dkms install nvidia-currentx/3xx.xx -k x.y.z
> 
> OK, thanks for the information.

Thanks for reporting back.

Unfortunately if the linux-headers-* packages don't change names when
ABI compatibility is broken there's just no way to deal with it apart
from rebuilding manually with the above commands, that's just how DKMS
works I'm afraid.
So closing this now.

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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