Bug#881921: nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver: Compile error when building module for stretch-bpo kernel (currently 4.13.0-0-bpo.1-amd64)

[Luca Boccassi]

On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 15:29 +0100, Daniel Reichelt wrote:
> Package: nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver
> Version: 340.102-1
> Severity: important
> 
> Hi,
> 
> on a stretch system which has (only) the current bpo-kernel
> installed,
> nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver fails to compile the nvidia module.
> 
> Please find attached the console log of
> 
> `apt-get -y install nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver 2>&1 | tee
> console.log`
> 
> and dkms'
> 
> /var/lib/dkms/nvidia-legacy-340xx/340.102/build/make.log .
> 
> Hauler if you need more info.
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Daniel
> 
> 
> 
> -- Package-specific info:
> uname -a:
> Linux host-151 4.13.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.13.4-2~bpo9+1
> (2017-10-17) x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> /proc/version:
> Linux version 4.13.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (debian-kernel at lists.debian.org)
> (gcc version 6.3.0 20170516 (Debian 6.3.0-18)) #1 SMP Debian 4.13.4-
> 2~bpo9+1 (2017-10-17)

Hi,

If you install the kernel from backports, then you also need to pick
the drivers from backports. Mix-and-match is never guaranteed to work
as updates to stable are much rarer and slower, so they can't possibly
keep up with new kernels coming out.

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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