ddm-mx: NVIDIA 304.xx Legacy installation bug

[dolphin_oracle]

Thanks. I would like to track this down.

One thing...you can purge off the nvidia drivers with

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ddm-mx -p nvidia

[kmathern]

One thing...you can purge off the nvidia drivers with

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ddm-mx -p nvidia

And you can verify they're all gone with the dpkg command I posted earlier. It shouldn't show any *nvidia* packages installed except for nvidia-detect and maybe also nvidia-installer-cleanup.

[Friedrich]

One thing...you can purge off the nvidia drivers with

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ddm-mx -p nvidia

I knew that one, but preferred to use timeshift, in case there might be a bug in the ddm-mx-script, any left over config files or sth. like that.
The timeshift snapshot I reversed to was made right after a fresh and fully updated installation.
Will try with a fresh installation tomorrow, anyway.
And report back, of course..

[Stevo]

The version in the main MX repo is also higher than the backports version (-5~bpo vs -6~mx17), so it does no good to choose that option anyway. Possibly trying to force the older backports version is causing the problem. I'm not even sure if that version builds on our stock 4.19 kernel--I'd like to see the installer switch to offering our test repo version instead of backports, since that's causing a lot of trouble, and backports doesn't even have 410.104 any longer.

[Friedrich]

-Reversed with timeshift to a nvidia-free state:

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$ dpkg -l | grep -i nvidia | awk '{print $2,$3,$4}' | column -t
nvidia-detect  390.87-8~deb9u1  amd64

-start ddm-mx
1. Option chosen: 1 (backports)
2. Option chosen: 2: Debian Backports 304.137-5~bpo9+1 (<- script changed? Can't remember these 3 options were there last time)
3. Option chosen: 1) yes (default)

Result: The same. 340.xx driver are drawn in somehow:
Edit: Package list removed as it's identical to the previous one

[Friedrich]

-Reversed with timeshift to a nvidia-free state:

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$ dpkg -l | grep -i nvidia | awk '{print $2,$3,$4}' | column -t
nvidia-detect  390.87-8~deb9u1  amd64

-start ddm-mx
1. Option chosen: 2 (don't look for newer version in backports)
2. Option chosen: 1) yes (default):

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Kandidat ist: 304.137-6~mx17+1
Installiert ist: (none)
Treiber benötigt:nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver (304.137-6~mx17+1)
 packages to install are  nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver nvidia-settings-legacy-304xx nvidia-legacy-304xx-kernel-dkms nvidia-xconfig

Weiter ?
  1) yes (default)

Result: 340,xx-driver not drawn in:

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$ dpkg -l | grep -i nvidia | awk '{print $2,$3,$4}' | column -t
glx-alternative-nvidia                     0.8.8~mx17+1      amd64
libgl1-nvidia-legacy-304xx-glx:amd64       304.137-6~mx17+1  amd64
libgl1-nvidia-legacy-304xx-glx:i386        304.137-6~mx17+1  i386
libnvidia-legacy-304xx-cfg1:amd64          304.137-6~mx17+1  amd64
libnvidia-legacy-304xx-cfg1:i386           304.137-6~mx17+1  i386
libnvidia-legacy-304xx-glcore:amd64        304.137-6~mx17+1  amd64
libnvidia-legacy-304xx-glcore:i386         304.137-6~mx17+1  i386
libnvidia-legacy-304xx-ml1:amd64           304.137-6~mx17+1  amd64
nvidia-detect                              390.87-8~deb9u1   amd64
nvidia-installer-cleanup                   20151021+4        amd64
nvidia-kernel-common                       20151021+4        amd64
nvidia-legacy-304xx-alternative            304.137-6~mx17+1  amd64
nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver                 304.137-6~mx17+1  amd64
nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver-bin             304.137-6~mx17+1  amd64
nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver-libs:amd64      304.137-6~mx17+1  amd64
nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver-libs:i386       304.137-6~mx17+1  i386
nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver-libs-i386:i386  304.137-6~mx17+1  i386
nvidia-legacy-304xx-kernel-dkms            304.137-6~mx17+1  amd64
nvidia-legacy-304xx-kernel-support         304.137-6~mx17+1  amd64
nvidia-legacy-304xx-vdpau-driver:amd64     304.137-6~mx17+1  amd64
nvidia-modprobe                            390.87-1~deb9u1   amd64
nvidia-persistenced                        390.87-1~deb9u1   amd64
nvidia-settings-legacy-304xx               304.134-1         amd64
nvidia-support                             20151021+4        amd64
nvidia-xconfig                             390.87-1~deb9u1   amd64
xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-legacy-304xx     304.137-6~mx17+1  amd64