Bug#1098940: Repetitive crashes

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2/26/25 10:27, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Package: nvidia-driver
> Version: 545.23.06-4
> Severity: serious
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for maintaining this package.
> 
> I'm running Bookworm with the 6.12.9+bpo-amd64 kernel. In there, I did my own
> backport of nvidia-graphics-drivers 545.23.06-4~bpo12+1. At least, X-Window
> can start, and it kind of works (ie: Xorg doesn't crash systematically at
> startup time), but I've been experiencing a lot of instabilities, ranging from
> X-Window freeze, to window manager crashing while other GUI works but no
> keyboard, and up to my laptop being completely unresponsive.
> 
> FYI, my graphic card is a mobile RTX-4080. The previous (official) BPO version
> of the driver used to work very well (just, it failed to start on the newer
> BPO kernel).

I've just uploaded 535.216.03-2~bpo12+1, that should work for 6.12.

> It looks like there's a newer upstream driver. Can this be packaged? I'd test
> it and report if it works well or not.

In my pipeline ...


Andreas