nvidia 340.108 driver

[Procenko]

Thanks a lot for make support this driver in MX!

1. How you do that support here at MX, because this driver officially drops at Bullseye?

2. And one more question. Is this bug fixable?
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... ug=1031489
incompatibility nvidia 340.108 driver and Qt versions 5.15.4 - 5.15.8 breaks the work of all Qt software

[dolphin_oracle]

Thanks a lot for make support this driver in MX!

1. How you do that support hare at MX, because this driver officially drops at Bullseye?

we have our own repo and packaged it ourselves.

2. And one more question. Is this bug fixable?
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... ug=1031489
incompatibility nvidia 340.108 driver and Qt versions 5.15.4 - 5.15.8 breaks the work of all Qt software

I don't think we've encountered that one.

[Stevo]

MX 21 has Qt 5.15.2. 'Nuff said.

[Procenko]

I don't think we've encountered that one.

yet not encountered, because

MX 21 has Qt 5.15.2.

and what will be when Qt updated to 5.15.4+ here?

[timkb4cq]

MX is not a rolling distribution, so MX-21 will not get Qt updated.
We are based on debian stable, so the next version after bookworm becomes stable will most likely have Qt 5.15.8

However I also notice that debian has backported some Qt crash related fixes into their 5.15.8 from upstream, so the problem may be resolved before the bookworm release.

[Procenko]

However I also notice that debian has backported some Qt crash related fixes into their 5.15.8 from upstream, so the problem may be resolved before the bookworm release.

Thank you for giving a hope! :)

And where is i can tracking such fixes?

[timkb4cq]

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgrepo ... source-src
For closed bugs select "archived" in misc options near the bottom of the page.
It's kinda dense reading and there are lots of old bugs from versions prior to 5.15.4 so look at the higher numbers first.

Since bookworm won't include nvida-legacy-340.x there won't be bugs referencing it - but that sort of crash will probably be triggered by other software that uses the same calls.

[Procenko]

Since bookworm won't include nvida-legacy-340.x there won't be bugs referencing it - but that sort of crash will probably be triggered by other software that uses the same calls.

Thanks!

They drop 340.108 at stable but still support it at sid officially, why they ignore such bugs?

[timkb4cq]

Sid isn't really supported. It's other name is Unstable. It's where most packages start out in debian (some start in experimental before maybe making it to sid). When they work out enough bugs they move to Testing. Not every package makes it.

The debian versions (bullseye, buster, stretch, woody, etc) are named after characters in the Toy Story movies. Sid was the kid who liked to break toys. You use Sid at your own risk.

[Procenko]

Ok:) Thanks!
I mean that officially Sid yet have support 340.108 but bullseye not. And i am interesting what chance that Qt 5.15.4 - 5.15.8 and 340.108 driver will fix in future?