Bug#976056: nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver: Fails to build with kernel 5.9.11 (package linux-image-5.9.0-4-amd64)

[Paolo Inaudi]

About that rule, the only way to prevent breaking testing would have been
marking this bug as release critical not for this package, but for the
linux kernel package.
Which in turn would mean holding off new kernel releases from debian until
a proprietary legacy driver is fixed, which might never happen since nvidia
officially discontinued this driver.
Also remember that this package is in non-free, which is considered to be
not part of debian.

AFAIU it depends on turning a flag in kernel compilation, and I don't
understand what it does but I trust it was shutdown for good reason.

Just saying IMHO we shouldn't be mad at debian for what happened, just hope
someone will find a way to fix it.

Paolo


Il lun 7 dic 2020, 02:12 Del Fernandes <multus12 at delmir.com> ha scritto:

> It was quite disappointing to see (or not see) the GUI/WM stop working
> after a causal system update (not upGrade).
>
> I was able to get the system somewhat back to  normal by using the
> NOUVEAU driver instead of NVIDIA. BTW, even that was kind of tricking
> because the Nvidia driver blacklisted Nouveau at
> /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-blacklists-nouveau.conf which remained  even
> after purging everything related to Nvidia via APT.
>
> PS.: For some reason, the laptop no longer revived with Nouveau after
> a suspend (closing the laptop's lid). That was "bypassed" in the
> meantime by editing /etc/systemd/logind.conf and replacing all
> "suspends" with "ignores".
>
> Again, that was very disappointing !8-(. What happened with the golden
> 'Do no harm, don't break users' rule?!
>
> On Sun, Dec 6, 2020 at 1:33 PM Paolo Inaudi <p91paul at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > @jim_p Is it possible for you to avoid putting all system information
> > and Xorg logs in every message?
> > It makes the thread very difficult to follow on the online bug tracker.
> >
> > I too rolled back to linux-image-5.9.0-3-amd64 which works, hope it
> > won't be my very last kernel version.
> >
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