On Feb 29, 2016 18:28, "Victor Porton" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2016-02-29 at 16:36 +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote: >> >> Control: tag -1 moreinfo >> Control: severity -1 normal >> >> On Sun, 2016-01-31 at 15:49 +0200, Victor Porton wrote: >>> >>> Package: xserver-xorg-video-nvidia >>> Version: 340.96-4 >>> Severity: important >>> >>> Dear Maintainer, >>> >>> With Nouveau Gnome works well. >>> >>> After installing xserver-xorg-video-nvidia it is impossible to start GDM. >>> At start of GDM I see "Something went wrong" error message and the system >>> is frozen. >>> >>> My video card: >>> GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3 >>> >>> My motherboard: >>> Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. H67A-UD3H >>> >>> -- System Information: >>> Debian Release: stretch/sid >>> APT prefers testing >>> APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') >>> Architecture: i386 (i686) >>> >>> Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/8 CPU cores) >>> Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) >>> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash >>> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) >>> >>> Versions of packages xserver-xorg-video-nvidia depends on: >>> ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.58 >>> ii libc6 2.21-7 >>> pn libgl1-nvidia-glx <none> >>> ii nvidia-alternative 340.96-4 >>> ii nvidia-installer-cleanup 20151021+1 >>> pn nvidia-support <none> >>> ii xserver-xorg-core [xorg-video-abi-19] 2:1.17.3-2 >>> >>> Versions of packages xserver-xorg-video-nvidia recommends: >>> pn nvidia-driver <none> >>> ii nvidia-kernel-dkms 340.96-4 >>> pn nvidia-settings <none> >>> ii nvidia-vdpau-driver 340.96-4 >>> >>> Versions of packages xserver-xorg-video-nvidia suggests: >>> ii nvidia-kernel-dkms 340.96-4 >> >> >> Hi, >> >> The system report says you do not have nvidia-driver installed. Also you >> said you just installed that single package. Is that intentional? You >> need to install nvidia-driver for the stack to work. >> >> The nvidia-driver meta-package will pull in everything you need, >> including the GL libraries. >> Please install it and report back. >> >> Kind regards, >> Luca Boccassi >> > > I tried to install nvidia-driver. Due install it says that my video card is no longer supported. So I interrupted the install. > > As my card is unsupported, please mark this bug INVALID or WONTFIX and close it.
Hi, If your card is not supported by the stable release, install the legacy driver: nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver Nvidia maintains legacy releases for a few years to support older hardware that is dropped by the main release. We support it through the legacy packages. Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
