nVidia drivers for kernel 3.2.96-3 (3.0.2-5)

[Camaleón]

El 2018-02-25 a las 11:31 +0000, Luca Boccassi escribió:

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> > Just dist-upgraded my Wheezy to install the latest security kernel 
> > (meltdown and spectre patched) and noticed the nvidia kernel driver
> > was
> > not updated accordingly leaving the X server unable to load the
> > driver 
> > (black screen).
> > 
> > linux-image-3.2.0-5-amd64 (3.2.96-3) [security] 
> > nvidia-kernel-3.2.0-4-amd64 (304.131+1+1+3.2.73-2) [non-free] 
> > 
> > Is this an expected behaviour (no more nvidia kernel updates for 
> > old-old-stable releases) or I can expect to be solved in the next
> > days?
> 
> (BBC'ed the kernel list, please keep this on the pkg-nvidia-devel list)

Okay.
 
> Use the DKMS package rather than the binary modules package, so that
> the oot kernel modules are rebuilt dynamically when the kernel is
> updated:
> 
> apt-get install nvidia-kernel-dkms

I prefer avoid dkms as never understood how it worked. I can boot with 
the old (unpatched) kernel until the nvidia driver is available just 
wanted to know if this is going to happen or just is expected to be 
dropped for Wheezy.

Cheers,

-- 
Camaleón