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

Luca Boccassi luca.boccassi at gmail.com
Sun Jan 22 23:46:14 UTC 2017


On Sun, 2017-01-22 at 22:54 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> 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

I've committed the fix to branches/304, do you have time to prepare an
upload before the 25th (so that it migrates to stretch before the 5th)?

Thanks!

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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