[elrepo] nvidia-x11-drv and GLVND

[Pat Riehecky]

On 08/25/2016 03:18 PM, Phil Perry wrote:
> On 25/08/16 20:09, Pat Riehecky wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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
>
> Thanks for the suggestion Pat.
>
> Does the Fedora source RPM build cleanly on el6/7? Or if not do you 
> have a package you could share?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Phil
>
>
My memory says, I was able to just take the fedora package and rebuild 
it as is.

On the off change my memory was wrong, I've published the SRPMs at :
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6rolling/testing/SRPMS/
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/7rolling/testing/SRPMS/

Pat