[elrepo] nvidia-x11-drv and GLVND

[Pat Riehecky]

On 08/25/2016 12:35 PM, Phil Perry wrote:
> On 25/08/16 09:54, John Hodrien wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
> Brilliant - real testing with real apps. When I searched I mostly 
> found issues being reported WRT games, so it's nice to hear that 
> issues with Enterprise use cases have been fixed. Please feel free to 
> feed back any other experiences of colleagues etc that you may hear.
>
>>> 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.
>>
>
> Fantastic, let us know if you encounter any issues.
>
>>> So at the moment I see no reason not to consider rolling out GLNVD
>>> enabled packages.
>>
>> I'd agree entirely.
>>
>> jh
>

I don't have a card that supports this driver, but I've had good luck 
building http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=767365  -> 
glmark2  for EL6/7

That might provide an interesting stress test for video features. May 
shake out some edge bugs......

Pat