RE: Kernel 3.8 + nvidia?
I upgraded yesterday, and also installed 3.8. I was wondering, has anyone else run into issues with the nvidia drivers with this kernel? I realize I have a kind of franken-driver situation:
ii glx-alternative-nvidia 0.3.0 amd64 allows the selection of NVIDIA as GLX provider
ii libgl1-nvidia-alternatives 304.88-2 amd64 transition libGL.so* diversions to glx-alternative-nvidia
ii libgl1-nvidia-alternatives-ia32 304.88-2 amd64 simplifies replacing MESA libGL with GPU vendor libraries (32-bit)
ii libgl1-nvidia-glx:amd64 313.30-1 amd64 NVIDIA binary OpenGL libraries
ii libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386 313.30-1 i386 NVIDIA binary OpenGL libraries
ii libglx-nvidia-alternatives 304.88-2 amd64 transition libgl.so diversions to glx-alternative-nvidia
ii libnvidia-ml1:amd64 304.88-2 amd64 NVIDIA management library (NVML) runtime library
rc libxvmcnvidia1:amd64 304.84-1 amd64 NVIDIA binary XvMC library
ii nvidia-alternative 313.30-1 amd64 allows the selection of NVIDIA as GLX provider
ii nvidia-glx 313.30-1 amd64 NVIDIA metapackage
ii nvidia-installer-cleanup 20130505+1 amd64 cleanup after driver installation with the nvidia-installer
ii nvidia-kernel-common 20130505+1 amd64 NVIDIA binary kernel module support files
ii nvidia-kernel-dkms 313.30-1 amd64 NVIDIA binary kernel module DKMS source
ii nvidia-kernel-source 304.88-2 amd64 NVIDIA binary kernel module source
ii nvidia-settings 304.88-1 amd64 Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
ii nvidia-smi 304.88-2 amd64 NVIDIA System Management Interface
ii nvidia-support 20130505+1 amd64 NVIDIA binary graphics driver support files
ii nvidia-vdpau-driver:amd64 313.30-1 amd64 NVIDIA vdpau driver
ii xserver-xorg-video-nvidia 313.30-1 amd64 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver
but that was a result of the driver bug a couple of months ago which made the VTs go away, and the fix was to use the nvidia driver from experimental.
Has anyone seen any issues with 3.8, or is it my driver craziness?
Thanks,
--b
The 3.8 kernel, designated "-trunk" in experimental worked well. When they moved it to sid, stuff broke for a lot of people, including people who were already running it. It's gone from experimental now, so we can't easily roll back. You can consider reinstalling the nvidia driver, but it didn't work for me. Is nvidia really the problem, or is it the usb driver? The usb functionality broke for me, and I can't log in using lightdm, because my keyboard and mouse are usb. ssh is not running, so logins from the network are out. Hitting the power button for a soft shutdown reset the computer instead of performing a shutdown, and I lost a RAID partition out of the deal. I put that machine aside and used the enforced downtime as a reason to put together a new machine, and I will postpone upgrading to 3.8 for a while until this gets straightened out.
So I am urging everyone to exercise caution going to 3.8 for a while.
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