It turned out, I had extra characters in my debian/rules file, most likely due to a mistake while copying the patch from the wiki. This crippled my tar command, but didn't make it completely useless. So much for "following instructions". ;-) Thanks for your patience!
In the end I manually installed these packages: libegl1-nvidia_367.27-1_amd64.deb libegl-nvidia0_367.27-1_amd64.deb libgl1-nvidia-glx_367.27-1_amd64.deb libgles1-glvnd-nvidia_367.27-1_amd64.deb libgles2-glvnd-nvidia_367.27-1_amd64.deb libglvnd-nvidia_367.27-1_amd64.deb libglx0-nvidia_367.27-1_amd64.deb libglx-nvidia0_367.27-1_amd64.deb libnvidia-eglcore_367.27-1_amd64.deb libnvidia-ml1_367.27-1_amd64.deb nvidia-alternative_367.27-1_amd64.deb nvidia-driver_367.27-1_amd64.deb nvidia-driver-bin_367.27-1_amd64.deb nvidia-kernel-dkms_367.27-1_amd64.deb nvidia-kernel-support_367.27-1_amd64.deb nvidia-vdpau-driver_367.27-1_amd64.deb xserver-xorg-video-nvidia_367.27-1_amd64.deb I also needed these packages from jessie-backports: glx-alternative-nvidia libvdpau1 nvidia-kernel-common nvidia-modprobe It wasn't necessary, but I thought it wouldn't hurt, to install nvidia-installer-cleanup from the backports too. Now I have this list of packages installed: # dpkg -l | grep nvidia ii glx-alternative-nvidia 0.7.3~bpo8+1 amd64 allows the selection of NVIDIA as GLX provider ii libegl-nvidia0:amd64 367.27-1 amd64 NVIDIA binary EGL libraries ii libegl1-nvidia:amd64 367.27-1 amd64 NVIDIA binary EGL stub libraries ii libgl1-nvidia-glx:amd64 367.27-1 amd64 NVIDIA binary OpenGL libraries ii libgles1-glvnd-nvidia:amd64 367.27-1 amd64 NVIDIA binary OpenGL|ES 1.x stub libraries ic libgles1-nvidia:amd64 340.96-1 amd64 NVIDIA binary OpenGL|ES 1.x libraries ii libgles2-glvnd-nvidia:amd64 367.27-1 amd64 NVIDIA binary OpenGL|ES 2.x stub libraries ic libgles2-nvidia:amd64 340.96-1 amd64 NVIDIA binary OpenGL|ES 2.x libraries ii libglvnd-nvidia:amd64 367.27-1 amd64 NVIDIA binary GL vendor neutral libraries ii libglx-nvidia0:amd64 367.27-1 amd64 NVIDIA binary GLX libraries ii libglx0-nvidia:amd64 367.27-1 amd64 Vendor neutral GL dispatch library -- libGLX ii libnvidia-eglcore:amd64 367.27-1 amd64 NVIDIA binary EGL core libraries ii libnvidia-ml1:amd64 367.27-1 amd64 NVIDIA Management Library (NVML) runtime library ii nvidia-alternative 367.27-1 amd64 allows the selection of NVIDIA as GLX provider ii nvidia-driver 367.27-1 amd64 NVIDIA metapackage ii nvidia-driver-bin 367.27-1 amd64 NVIDIA driver support binaries ii nvidia-installer-cleanup 20151021+1~bpo8+1 amd64 cleanup after driver installation with the nvidia-installer ii nvidia-kernel-common 20151021+1~bpo8+1 amd64 NVIDIA binary kernel module support files ii nvidia-kernel-dkms 367.27-1 amd64 NVIDIA binary kernel module DKMS source ii nvidia-kernel-support 367.27-1 amd64 NVIDIA binary kernel module support files ii nvidia-legacy-check 367.27-1 amd64 check for NVIDIA GPUs requiring a legacy driver ii nvidia-modprobe 358.09-1~bpo8+1 amd64 utility to load NVIDIA kernel modules and create device nodes rc nvidia-settings 340.46-2 amd64 tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver ii nvidia-support 20151021+1~bpo8+1 amd64 NVIDIA binary graphics driver support files ii nvidia-vdpau-driver:amd64 367.27-1 amd64 Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix - NVIDIA driver ii xserver-xorg-video-nvidia 367.27-1 amd64 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver I'm wondering about two things: 1. I still have libgles1-nvidia and libgles2-nvidia from 340 on my system, while there are only libgles1-glvnd-nvidia and libgles2-glvnd-nvidia for 367. Are the latter two packages equivalent to the former ones or should I have packages without "glvnd" for 367? 2. Is the old nvidia-settings package (or its removal) a problem? I see, there is no 367 svn package. [1] I also found a GT520 card to test with, so I have something that's actually supported by the driver. As far as I can tell, it works fine. The desktop comes up and I can play videos using OpenGL via the card. [1] https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-nvidia/packages/nvidia-settings/branches/
