Bug#887651: nvidia-legacy-304xx-kernel-dkms: Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 4.9.0-5-amd64 (i686)

[Luca Boccassi]

On Thu, 2018-01-18 at 21:10 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> On 2018-01-18 20:57, Harri Suutari wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 07:12:19PM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> > > You need nvidia-legacy-304xx-kernel-dkms:amd64 instead of
> > > nvidia-legacy-304xx-kernel-dkms:i386
> > 
> > Thanks Andreas, that worked. Compiling now works for the 64-bit
> > kernel
> > and X is running with the Nvidia driver.
> > 
> > All I needed to do was:
> > Commandline: apt-get install -t stretch-backports nvidia-legacy-
> > 304xx-kernel-dkms:amd64
> > Install: nvidia-legacy-304xx-kernel-dkms:amd64 (304.137-3~bpo9+1)
> > Remove: nvidia-legacy-304xx-kernel-dkms:i386 (304.137-3~bpo9+1)
> > 
> > (Compiling now fails for the 32-bit, but I could reverse the
> > process if
> > needed, I guess.)
> 
> That is expected. We stopped shipping both amd64 and i386 blobs in
> the
> same package at the time when the amd64 kernel was removed from the
> i386
> architecture (because just the foreign amd64 kernel could be
> installed).
> 
> And given that noone has requested being able to be build modules for
> amd64 and i386 simultaneously, I'm not going investigate how to make
> this package M-A: same :-)
> 
> 
> Andreas

Also the next series after 390 is going to drop i386 altogether so not
much point...

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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