[elrepo] nvidia-x11-drv and GLVND
John Hodrien
J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk
Thu Aug 25 04:54:53 EDT 2016
On Thu, 25 Aug 2016, Phil Perry wrote:
> From my understanding, nvidia first enabled GLNVD in the 361 beta release and
> there were some reported compatibility issues, mostly with games I believe.
> In the 361.28 driver release they then incorporated a legacy libGL library
> and made that the default.
I've not completely followed the changes, but 361.28 broke Matlab. No such
problems with 367, other people reported happiness with 364.
> So hopefully the current 367 release should be more stable no most of the
> issues have been resolved, so the next major long lived release from nvidia
> may be a sensible time for elrepo to roll out GLNVD enabled packages by
> default.
I've switched to your glvnd build on my desktop, so it's getting a fair bit of
testing here.
> So at the moment I see no reason not to consider rolling out GLNVD enabled
> packages.
I'd agree entirely.
jh
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