Bug#901919: nvidia-driver: black screen with the latest Linux kernel

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2018-07-03 20:31:55 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> On 2018-07-03 17:49, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Fri, 22 Jun 2018, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> >> I am downgrading as I verified there is a working workaround, add the
> >> following to the kernel cmdline:
> >>
> >> slab_common.usercopy_fallback=y
> > 
> > It's still hitting users hard until they find out this bug report.
> 
> I added a NEWS entry with the workaround, but probably only few of the
> affected users have apt-listbugs installed ...

apt-listchanges

But users may also have upgraded the Linux kernel before the
nvidia-driver version that has this NEWS entry, in particular
because linux-image-4.16.0-2-amd64 4.16.16-2 has already reached
testing, contrary to the new nvidia-driver version.

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