Bug#720528: nvidia: driver fails kernel 3.10+ (GeForce 600M and 700M series)

From	Andres Cimmarusti <acimmarusti@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#720528: nvidia: driver fails kernel 3.10+ (GeForce 600M and 700M series)
Date	2018-07-09 20:00 +0200
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> On Sat, 23 Aug 2014 22:53:48 -0700 Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2014-08-23 at 20:14 -0700, Andres Cimmarusti wrote:
> > > Let me re-state: worked with debian 3.9, broke with debian 3.11 (but
> > > works with Ubuntu vanilla LTS 3.11.10.x series), worked with debian
> > > 3.12, broke again with debian 3.13 (but worked again with Ubuntu
> > > vanilla LTS 3.13.11.x series) and finally doesn't work with debian
> > > 3.14 and also not with 3.15, I have yet to try 3.16.
> > > My guess is that a configuration option I'm using (processor timer
> > > frequency 1000 Hz) when building the Ubuntu vanilla LTS kernels is
> > > doing the trick, but then again I don't know why debian 3.12 did work.
> > > Could this faster 1000 Hz vs 250 Hz (default in debian) have anything
> > > to do with this ACPI issue Nvidia reported...
>
> Is this still an issue with the latest driver (390.67) and kernels
> available in sid, buster, and stretch-backports?
>

Sorry I forgot to report back on this issue. Since Debian Jessie (kernel
3.16) and now Debian Wheezy this has been resolved

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Bug#720528: nvidia: driver fails kernel 3.10+ (GeForce 600M and 700M series) Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org> - 2018-07-09 13:00 +0200
  Processed: Re: Bug#720528: nvidia: driver fails kernel 3.10+  (GeForce 600M and 700M series) "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2018-07-09 13:00 +0200
  Bug#720528: nvidia: driver fails kernel 3.10+ (GeForce 600M and 700M series) Andres Cimmarusti <acimmarusti@gmail.com> - 2018-07-09 20:00 +0200

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