[elrepo] nvidia-x11-drv and GLVND

[Phil Perry]

On 26/08/16 16:37, Pat Riehecky wrote:
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>
> On 08/25/2016 03:18 PM, Phil Perry wrote:
>> On 25/08/16 20:09, Pat Riehecky wrote:
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>>> 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

Many thanks Pat.

I can confirm that the Fedora SRPM rebuilds just fine on RHEL7, and the 
test suite runs on RHEL7 with our GLVND test builds.

Thanks again for the glmark suggestion!