Re: EOLing nvidia-graphics-drivers for bullseye?
Thanks for all your answers.
On 8/18/25 16:37, Santiago Ruano Rincón wrote:
it. With "providing the binary", I understood you proposed to place the
bullseye packages (builds) somewhere, so other people could test them,
as Tobi and Ariel have stepped up for. Does that match your initial
idea?
I would assume that amd64 binaries would be OK. I am afraid I don't have
any NVidia HW myself. It would be ideal to test the bullseye packages
before uploading them.
OK, I'm preparing a build and doing some installability tests ...
- nvidia-modprobe needs to be updated as well
- nvidia-settings should be updated, too, in order to make
nvidia-driver-full installable
- updating nvidia-persistenced is probably not needed (but could be
easily done, too)
Further updates would only update src:nvidia-graphics-drivers as the
only change in the other two/three packages in minor updates is usually
the version bump. (Only new major versions usually come with significant
code changes.) Therefore the versions are also not in sync, only the
major version needs to be.
An amd64 preview build for the three source packages can be found here,
together with an (unsigned) Packages file:
https://people.debian.org/~anbe/535.261.03/
Thats the proposed (not yet uploaded) bookworm-pu version (#1111368) +
the changes from bullseye-backports.
Please give it some testing.
In sources.list(.d/)
deb [trusted=yes] https://people.debian.org/~anbe/535.261.03/ ./
should work.
In a minimal bullseye chroot that has linux-headers-amd64 installed
nvidia-driver-full is installable. But I cannot test beyond that.
Andreas
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