linux-image-4.9.0-1-amd64 + nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver + xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

[Jimmy Johnson]

On 01/14/2017 02:26 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> <This was my report for the 4.8.0-2 kernel> And it still works.
> I updated Sid/testing a couple days ago and retested current drivers,
> "nouveau" is working with sddm okay but froze with plasma(colorful
> lighting bolts).  Current nvidia-legacy-304xx is working with XRender
> and compositing enabled and I'm good with that, tested on Stretch too,
> now I can do clean upgrades and I'm happy. Thank you Debian!
>
> linux-image-4.9.0-1-amd64 is behaving like image-4.8 used to behave
> nouveau froze with plasma(colorful lighting bolts).  Debian's
> nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver is freezing with plasma start.
>
> On first boot plasma loaded the vga driver giving me the wrong screen
> size and did not load the installed nvidia driver at all. Booting
> linux-image-4.9.0-1-amd64 and reinstalling nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver
> crashed plasma and so did nouveau. I'm back to using
> nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver and linux-image-4.8.0-2-amd64 with XRender
> and compositing enabled.

I'm happy to report linux-image-4.9.0-1-amd64 + 
nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver are currently working swell together.

Thank you Debian!
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Jimmy Johnson

Debian Sid/Testing - Plasma 5.8.4 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda9
Registered Linux User #380263