[elrepo] nvidia-x11-drv and GLVND

[Akemi Yagi]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 2:09 PM, Phil Perry <phil at elrepo.org> wrote:

> For now I've built a GLNVD enabled package set and uploaded them to their
> respective testing repositories. Packages are syncing to the mirrors. For
> example:
>
> nvidia-x11-drv-367.35-1.glvnd.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
> nvidia-x11-drv-367.35-1.glvnd.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
> nvidia-x11-drv-367.35-1.glvnd.el7.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
>
> As can be seen above, I've added .glvnd in the release string, which makes
> these packages a 'newer' version to yum/rpm.
>
> Thus, to test simply enable the testing repo and update:
>
> yum --enablerepo=elrepo-testing update nvidia-x11-drv\*
>
> and yum should pull in the updated GLNVD package(s). Then restart Xorg and
> test.
>
> I've only tested using glxgears. Works as expected for me.
>
> If anyone is able to test these builds, please report which distro/arch and
> what OpenGL apps you've tested with. Assuming there are no major issues, we
> could consider switching to GLNVD enabled packages for the next major
> Long-Lived release.

Just did a quick test on an EL6 system. So far, no issues.

System: Scientific Linux 6.8, kernel 2.6.32-642.4.2.el6.x86_64
OpenGL app used: pymol

Akemi