HP Z8 G5 linux-oem-22.04c 6.1.0-1012/29 kernel, nvidia-drm and aptitude behaviour.
Guillaume Yziquel
guillaume.yziquel at mailfence.com
Tue Feb 13 22:51:10 UTC 2024
Hi.
I recently ordered an HP Z8 G5 with Ubuntu 22.04 on it.
It came prepackaged with a linux-oem-22.04c 6.1.0-1012 kernel. And some extra apt repositories (jiayi and stella).
Three points:
1. After having installed aptitude, which I believe behaves a bit differently or more agressively than apt-get when it comes to the packages it wants to remove, it wants to remove the following packages:
- dmraid
- gir1.2-timezonemap-1.0
- gir1.2-xkl-1.0
- keyutils
- kpartx
- kpartx-boot
- libdebian-installer4
- libdmraid1.0.0.rc16
- libtimezonemap-data
- libtimezonemap1
- nvidia-firmware-535-535.113.01
- python3-icu
- python3-pam
- rdate
I believe removing these packages is a Bad Idea™.
Any suggestions as to the best way to ensure that these packages are not removed ? How may I check whether or not there exists a package from main, or jiyai or stella that I may accidentally have removed and that ensures these packages are pulled in ? (I do not remember having removed such a package, but who knows...)
2. At GDM boot, I get these message in dmesg:
[drm:nv_drm_master_set [nvidia_drm]] *ERROR* [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00005200] failed to grab modeset ownership
Which is a bit unfortunate. I would have expected the ubuntu packaging by HP not to have botched that up. But I don't know if it's me who made some unfortunate blunder. How may I check that and fix that ?
3. As these question pertain to HP/Ubuntu integration, this is perhaps somewhat tangentially off topic for this mailing list. Any idea whom or which list I should contact to dissect these issues ?
Best regards.
Guillaume Yziquel.
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