Bug#720528: nvidia: driver fails kernel 3.10+ (GeForce 600M and 700M series)
found 720528 linux/3.13.10-1 linux/3.11.10-1
notfound 720528 linux/3.12.9-1 linux/3.9.6-1
thanks
>From the forum:
For the issues what I mentioned earlier in this thread, that we
reproduced in-house and investigated : "This is not an Nvidia bug. On
affected notebooks Nvidia driver depends on ACPI subsystem to retrieve
VBIOS image but it fails to do so as _ROM method takes way too long to
evaluate." ACPI calls might be failing due to Linux kernel bug/SBIOS
bug/3rd Party HW bug or some other reason.
It appears this is some kernel issue, makes sense since some kernels
work, but others don't with the same version of the nvidia-driver. I'm
changing this bug report to the kernel.
BTW I got this problem again as soon as the upgrade to kernel 3.13.x
got into testing....
Curiously all LTS kernels from the ubuntu kernel git repository work
just fine... I was running on 3.8.13.x and now on 3.11.10.x, but the
newer LTS kernels from kernel.org fail: 3.10.x and >3.12.9
(this is particularly strange, because when testing had kernel 3.12.9,
it worked just fine....but when it had 3.11.10 it failed!)
This is not a configuration issue, because I'm using the same
configuration parameters as the Debian kernel builds for that specific
version.
This looks suspiciously like NVIDIA puts in a little more effort in
supporting Ubuntu kernels or viceversa...
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