Re: Upcoming changes to Debian Linux kernel packages
On 2023-10-01, Bastian Blank wrote:
> So you upgrade the driver and libaries and suddenly your system fails
> until you reboot? Okay, I could imaging NVidia doing something like
> tying libraries to kernel modules. At least in the past they replaced
> gl libraries that did not longer work with X forwarding.
>
> Could you please name the culprit, or is this just a theoretical
> problem?
Yes you named it. Without rebuilding with dkms the old kernel disable
nvidia loading.
> However what if the new driver does not build with the old kernel?
Of course. But it would fail during compilation not days after when you
desperately need to boot on the only supposedly working kernel
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