nvidia-legacy-340xx-kernel-dkms

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 27/02/2021 19.22, Noles Care wrote:
> I updated from buster tu bullseye like one month ago, and I realized that
> there are no more updates to the driver nvidia-legacy-340xx, and the kernel
> 5.10 fails loading the module for the kernel, I just updated the
> nvidia-legacy-340xx-kernel-dkms package from 340.108-3~deb10u1 to
> 340.108-10 and I was able to make it work with the kernel 5.10.
> Just a question ... Will be there any "normal" way to use bullseye with
> nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver? or if I want to be up to date with my desktop
> and everything... Do I need to necessarily change my video card?

Bullseye will not ship with the legacy 340 driver which is End-of-Life 
upstream for more than a year now. It is most likely accumulating 
security bugs that are never going to be fixed.
That driver will also never appear in buster-backports (because to be a 
candidate for backports it would have to go back to testing).

We may keep the driver in sid (or experimental) and may even update it 
for supporting newer kernels if someone digs out patches from other 
distros or writes them. Unless some major changes happen in sid 
elsewhere, the packages are expected to stay installable in bullseye 
(but that is not being tested). And the packages from buster-backports 
are probably usable in bullseye, too.


Andreas