Comment 48 for bug 1431753

Thank you Zewbie

Best Regards,
Nima Soltani
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Graduate Student of Physical Chemistry
Department of Chemistry,
Sharif University of Technology.
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On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 1:07 AM, Nima Soltani <email address hidden> wrote:

> Thanks alot
>
> Best Regards,
> Nima Soltani
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> Graduate Student of Physical Chemistry
> Department of Chemistry,
> Sharif University of Technology.
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> On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 11:29 PM, Pablo <email address hidden> wrote:
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>> Nima,
>>
>> I moved to SteamOS. I am afraid you have to format your OS drive though.
>> For me is important my NVidia works correctly for games and work
>> projects. I know they will take care of that part.
>>
>> In general I like Debian or Debian variants. They have a huge number of
>> packages.
>>
>> --
>> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a
>> duplicate bug report (1268257).
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1431753
>>
>> Title:
>> Nvidia binary driver FTBS due to DKMS layer violation
>>
>> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331 package in Ubuntu:
>> Confirmed
>> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331-updates package in Ubuntu:
>> Confirmed
>> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 package in Ubuntu:
>> Fix Released
>> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-340-updates package in Ubuntu:
>> Fix Released
>> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-346 package in Ubuntu:
>> Fix Released
>> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-346-updates package in Ubuntu:
>> Fix Released
>> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331 source package in Trusty:
>> Triaged
>> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331-updates source package in Trusty:
>> Triaged
>> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 source package in Trusty:
>> Confirmed
>> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-340-updates source package in Trusty:
>> Confirmed
>> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-346 source package in Trusty:
>> Confirmed
>> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-346-updates source package in Trusty:
>> Confirmed
>>
>> Bug description:
>> Filing this against the 340-updates version but possibly the same
>> applies to older versions, too. The nvidia source package produces two
>> individual dkms packages: nvidia-340-updates, nvidia-340-updates-uvm.
>> The problem is that the DKMS build of the nvidia-uvm module runs
>> compile steps inside the nvidia modules build directory. This is
>> violating the DKMS assumption that each module can be build
>> independently (there is no way of describing cross-modules
>> dependencies and even more important, the autoinstall step after a new
>> kernel is installed will run the modules build in parallel).
>>
>> Since nvidia and nvidia-uvm are very dependent on each other the right
>> course of action seems to be to combine both sources in one DKMS
>> module that produces two kernel modules (this is supported by DKMS).
>> For the transition this resulting dkms package needs to have a
>> breaks/replaces for the nvidia-uvm package.
>>
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