Re: EOLing nvidia-graphics-drivers for bullseye?
Am 29. August 2025 12:31:50 UTC schrieb "Santiago Ruano Rincón" <santiago@freexian.com>:
>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,
>
yes, will test this Weekend.
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