Comment 56 for bug 1431753

Hi John,

I think that after you add the repository, just doing an update will
install the updated new packages.

On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 10:46 AM, John Feole <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Hi Adam,
>
> I've never used this -proposed repo and had a coupla questions..(my son son
> Sean Feole works for Canonical as well)
>
> I've been using Ubuntu for work/home use since 2006 or so when i was at Sun
> and heard about it via Solaris Engineering...
>
> Anyway, I enabled the -proposed repo, and I see a lot of stuff. My
> question is, can I deselect all the other stuff and only load the NVIDIA
> 346 stuff? Guess my real question is, what stuff do I need to install to
> rectify this NVIDIA bug..?
>
> Thank You,
> John Feole
>
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Adam Conrad <adconrad@0c3.net> wrote:
>
> > Hello Stefan, or anyone else affected,
> >
> > Accepted nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 into trusty-proposed. The package
> > will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source
> > /nvidia-graphics-drivers-340/340.76-0ubuntu0.1 in a few hours, and then
> > in the -proposed repository.
> >
> > Please help us by testing this new package. See
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to
> > enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update
> > out to other Ubuntu users.
> >
> > If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
> > mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag
> > from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the
> > bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to
> > verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help
> > us make a better decision.
> >
> > Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in
> > advance!
> >
> > ** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers-340-updates (Ubuntu Trusty)
> > Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed
> >
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> > report.
> > 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:
> > Fix Committed
> > Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-340-updates source package in Trusty:
> > Fix Committed
> > Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-346 source package in Trusty:
> > Fix Committed
> > Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-346-updates source package in Trusty:
> > Fix Committed
> >
> > 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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>
> Title:
> Nvidia binary driver FTBS due to DKMS layer violation
>
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