Bug#787582: VDPAU needed

[Julien Aubin]

No problem I've pushed a WA in the bug report. If you could put it in the
wiki. I never managed to create an account on it
Le 18 oct. 2015 14:23, "Luca Boccassi" <luca.boccassi at gmail.com> a écrit :

> On Sun, 2015-10-18 at 00:23 +0200, Julien Aubin wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > The problem is that until now you guaranteed that NVidia drivers could
> > be installed for Maxwell GPU owners using your experimental repo, and
> > now this is no longer the case.
> >
> >
> > Cf. documentation :
> > https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers
> >
> >
> >
> > I perfectly understand your point but this is a problem for anyone
> > upgrading their GPU. So until the moment glx-alternative-nvidia is in
> > backports repo could you please revert to 352.41 ?
>
> Hi Julien,
>
> Sorry for these troubles.
>
> Unfortunately we are facing a rather nasty bug with devices permissions,
> which might have bad implications, and we don't have a definitive
> comprehensive solution yet. So for a little while longer things in
> unstable/experimental will be in a bit of flux. After all, that's what
> unstable and experimental are for :-)
>
> Meanwhile, users can either (as Andreas already suggested) install all
> the binary packages of glx-alternatives from sid (glx-diversions,
> glx-alternative-nvidia, glx-alternative-mesa) or pin the nvidia-driver
> to the previous version, 352.41. This can be done with "sudo apt-mark
> hold <package-name>". This way your update/dist-upgrade won't be broken.
>
> Kind regards,
> Luca Boccassi
>
>
>
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