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Re: EOLing nvidia-graphics-drivers for bullseye?



Hello all,

El 18/08/25 a las 18:31, Andreas Beckmann escribió:
> Thanks for all your answers.

Thanks a lot for your work on this, Andreas!

> 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.

ACK!

> 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

Tobias, Ariel, are you able to test those packages on real hardware
running bullseye? Of course, the invitation is open to any bullseye user
reading the list ;-)

Cheers,

-- 
Santiago Ruano Rincón ◈  Freexian SARL
https://www.freexian.com

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