Bug#950586: REDEFINITION: dkms build fails with kernel 5.4.0-3-686-pae but NOT with 4.17.0-3-686-pae

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 03/02/2020 22.14, js wrote:
> I expected the dkms module would be built for 5.4 as it was for 4.17.

The nvidia kernel module build usually breaks with every new major
kernel release, e.g. 5.4 -> 5.5

> [I understand this is an older version of nvidia-kernel-dkms but did not

Please check the description of the package, it will tell you the
maximum kernel version where we successfully built the module for.
(Usually the current kernel version at the time the package was uploaded.)

> find a bug report regarding this and would normally not upgrade both
> kernel and nvidia at the same time.]

Then upgrade nvidia first. The driver should be backwards compatible.


Andreas