Re: nVidia drivers for kernel 3.2.96-3 (3.0.2-5)

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From	Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
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Subject	Re: nVidia drivers for kernel 3.2.96-3 (3.0.2-5)
Date	Sun, 25 Feb 2018 12:40:02 +0100
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> Hello,
> 
> Just dist-upgraded my Wheezy to install the latest security kernel 
> (meltdown and spectre patched) and noticed the nvidia kernel driver
> was
> not updated accordingly leaving the X server unable to load the
> driver 
> (black screen).
> 
> linux-image-3.2.0-5-amd64 (3.2.96-3) [security] 
> nvidia-kernel-3.2.0-4-amd64 (304.131+1+1+3.2.73-2) [non-free] 
> 
> Is this an expected behaviour (no more nvidia kernel updates for 
> old-old-stable releases) or I can expect to be solved in the next
> days?

(BBC'ed the kernel list, please keep this on the pkg-nvidia-devel list)

Use the DKMS package rather than the binary modules package, so that
the oot kernel modules are rebuilt dynamically when the kernel is
updated:

apt-get install nvidia-kernel-dkms

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi

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nVidia drivers for kernel 3.2.96-3 (3.0.2-5) Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> - 2018-02-25 10:30 +0100
  Re: nVidia drivers for kernel 3.2.96-3 (3.0.2-5) Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> - 2018-02-25 12:40 +0100

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