Bug#852152: kernel 4.9: NVIDIA: Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2017-01-22 03:30, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Even though your package Description says
> "Building the kernel module has been tested up to Linux 4.9."

> Maybe BUILDING yes, but not RUNNING, no.

Further testing is not possible without sufficiently old hardware.

> With 4.9 you will get: NVIDIA: Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module

What is the exact error you get from the kernel when loading the module?
You should find this in e.g. dmesg or the journald equivalent of
/var/log/messages.

There is another bug with your bug report: it didn't run the bug script
that should have collected more information ...


Andreas