Bug#944053: nvidia-legacy-390xx-kernel-dkms: Unable to build the driver

[Andreas Beckmann]

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On 03/11/2019 14.14, Nicolas Patrois wrote:
> The package can’t build the driver because it does not find the snd-page-alloc
> kernel driver in the 4.17.0 kernel (nor in 4.18).

The nvidia driver is not related to any sound driver kernel module.
The error messages you posted do not mention nvidia at all.

The nvidia kernel module is loaded:

> -- Package-specific info:
> uname -a:
> Linux nicolas.home 4.17.0-3-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.17.17-1 (2018-08-18) i686 GNU/Linux
> 
> /proc/version:
> Linux version 4.17.0-3-686-pae (debian-kernel at lists.debian.org) (gcc version 7.3.0 (Debian 7.3.0-28)) #1 SMP Debian 4.17.17-1 (2018-08-18)
> 
> /proc/driver/nvidia/version:
> NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module  390.129  Mon Jul 22 19:40:01 PDT 2019
> GCC version:  gcc version 7.4.0 (Debian 7.4.0-10) 

and was successfully built for 4.17 and 4.18:

> Kernel modules: nvidia.ko
> /lib/modules/4.17.0-3-686-pae/updates/dkms/nvidia-legacy-390xx.ko
> /lib/modules/4.17.0-3-686-pae/updates/dkms/nvidia-legacy-390xx-drm.ko
> /lib/modules/4.17.0-3-686-pae/updates/dkms/nvidia-legacy-390xx-modeset.ko
> /lib/modules/4.18.0-1-686-pae/updates/dkms/nvidia-legacy-390xx.ko
> /lib/modules/4.18.0-1-686-pae/updates/dkms/nvidia-legacy-390xx-drm.ko
> /lib/modules/4.18.0-1-686-pae/updates/dkms/nvidia-legacy-390xx-modeset.ko

Andreas