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Bug#921114: no display on GL applications



On Sat, 2019-02-02 at 13:23 +0100, at46 wrote:
> Hi Jean-Dominique,
> 
> are you mixing stable and testing? As far as I can see 
> Firmware-nonfree/20190114-1 isn't available for stable/stretch. Maybe 
> you also need to use a newer kernel. The Debian changelog 
> (https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/f/firmware-nonfree/changelog-20190114-1) 
> mention "Update to linux-support 4.19.0-1".

The binary packages built from firmware-nonfree intentionally do not
have any relations to kernel versions.  Whenever there is an ABI-
incompatible change in firmware, the firmware should be given a new
filename.  It is not an error to use a new firmware package with an old
kernel.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Knowledge is power.  France is bacon.


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