Bug#939401: nvidia-driver: Xorg crashing in an endless loop after upgrade to version 430

[Luca Boccassi]

On Thu, 21 Nov 2019 at 15:30, Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Luca,
>
> On Sun, 08 Sep 2019 11:50:28 +0100 Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org> wrote:
> > Ok scratch that, I can reproduce - it's because of the non-glvnd
> > libraries. With the glvnd one there's no issue, and that's why 435
> > works - non-glvnd was removed.
>
> Can you check 430.64-1? If that still does not work, I'll remove the
> non-glvnd binaries like in 435. And with the RC bugs gone, I might do a
> buster-backports upload as well.
>
> Could you also verify that the latest 418.xx releases still do work in
> non-glvnd mode?
>
> https://people.debian.org/~anbe/418.113/amd64/
>
> That's the latest 418.xx upstream release. (branch 418)
>
> https://people.debian.org/~anbe/418.87.01/amd64/
>
> That's the latest tesla driver release packaged as a regular 418.xx
> release (i.e. without any "*-tesla-*" package renaming that may still
> have some bugs in corner cases) (branch 418-tesla)
>
>
> Andreas

Hi,

Sorry, didn't have time till now.

I've done some work to make bumblebee+primus viable with either glvnd
or non-glvnd (for the legacy drivers), based on a suggestion from
Felipe.

See:

https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/pull/1050
https://salsa.debian.org/nvidia-team/bumblebee/merge_requests/2

There are many ways to approach this, I picked the separate package
with a different config file and a systemd drop-in to use it. I don't
particularly mind which solution we choose and have time over the
holidays to do some more work and testing if required.

Thanks!

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi