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[teo1978 <teo8976@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Just to make it clear, the status of this bug report was marked as 
> "Fix released" because the fix was actually released, and it's available
>  to you as long as you have the "trusty-updates" repositories enabled 
> (which should be enabled by default).

The latest status updates are about drivers 340+ versions. 331/Trusty is
still confirmed/triaged. Last time I checked, I had 331 installed. And I
remember getting the crash at some kernel update not long ago, but I
don't know when the last kernel update was.

So, will my 331 drivers be automagically replaced with 340, or with
whatever version fixes the bug? (or perhaps they have already?) Because
otherwise, the bug is not fixed for me nor for the millions of people
having ubuntu 14.04 with 331 drivers. Anyway, if that's not going to be
automatic, what should I do to get that?

For a bug to be "fix released", it requires that the issue must
disappear without me doing anything except for accepting the automatic
updates.

@Alexander donating money to Ubuntu? I hope you are kidding. That money is going to be wasted in making Ubuntu worse, which is the only thing Canonical does (whenever it does change something). Just see how Nautilus "evolves" or how grub still bricks a machine on dist-upgrade, just to name the top examples that come to my mind. 
You'd better donate directly to Alberto Milone or to whomever actually is actually doing something useful, or even something non-destructive.
Canonical has stopped giving a shit about desktop a while ago; apparently they are "focusing" on mobile (is Ubuntu mobile even a fucking thing?!?)


> Canonical wants to improve the situation for Nvidia users in the future

OMFG, "whants to" and "in the future"? For god's sake. It's been what?
20 years since NVidia has been the leader in the market of GPUs?

I am DEFINITELY done with Ubuntu. How long it will take for me to switch
to OpenSUSE is just a matter of how damn lazy I am.

(and you can bet I'll never buy a machine with an NVidia card again)

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1431753

Title:
  Nvidia binary driver FTBS due to DKMS layer violation

Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331 package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331-updates package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-340-updates package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-346 package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-346-updates package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331 source package in Trusty:
  Triaged
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331-updates source package in Trusty:
  Triaged
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 source package in Trusty:
  Fix Released
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-340-updates source package in Trusty:
  Fix Released
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-346 source package in Trusty:
  Fix Released
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-346-updates source package in Trusty:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Filing this against the 340-updates version but possibly the same
  applies to older versions, too. The nvidia source package produces two
  individual dkms packages: nvidia-340-updates, nvidia-340-updates-uvm.
  The problem is that the DKMS build of the nvidia-uvm module runs
  compile steps inside the nvidia modules build directory. This is
  violating the DKMS assumption that each module can be build
  independently (there is no way of describing cross-modules
  dependencies and even more important, the autoinstall step after a new
  kernel is installed will run the modules build in parallel).

  Since nvidia and nvidia-uvm are very dependent on each other the right
  course of action seems to be to combine both sources in one DKMS
  module that produces two kernel modules (this is supported by DKMS).
  For the transition this resulting dkms package needs to have a
  breaks/replaces for the nvidia-uvm package.

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