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Nvidia-driver.SlackBuild from SBo (or: I am a bad and sloppy SBo maintainer)

With work, the excitment of the upcoming new release, I got all in a tither. Here and the SBo mailing list, some of you had issues with the SBo Nvidia-driver.SlackBuild and had to revert to running nvidia *.run installer. Most of those were sillyb mistakes. My apologies.

Correct versions, and updated to include the big securty fix are here:
http://www.koenigcomputers.com/sbo-testing/

These are unofficial, of course, but will be merged into SBo when things settle down.

The current Nvidia-driver.SlackBuild on Sbo is still missing one symlink that, under some conditions, will result in a "libvdpau_nvpau.so missing" error. The fix is:

Code:

cd /usr/lib64

ln -sf libvdpau_nvidia.so.3042.17 libvdpau_nvidia.so

or you can edit the Nvidia-driver.SlackBuild to put

Code:

ln -sf libvdpau_nvidia.so.$VERSION libvdpau_nvidia.so

under "#symlinks" and "# symlinks for optional 32-bit support"
Also note, that the current SBo version still copies the various glx.h files from the nvidia package. This will cause errors with some compiles (Firefox
ESR). You can update to the new version (see above), manually revert the glx.h-xorg files, or stop X, login as root and:

Code:

# nvidia-switch --remove

...compile stuff....

# nvidia-switch --install

Thanks to Niki Kovacs for that one.

That should do it. If anyone still has issues, post on LQ, the SBo mailing list or pop (or IMAP if you prefer :) ) me an email.

Quote:

Originally Posted by kingbeowulf (Post 4761330)

You have enormous respect from me for maintainng such a complex slackbuild with a moving target like the nVidia drivers :).

Thanks, I owe it all to Heinz Wiesinger who set the standard.

Is anyone else having an issue with the /usr/include/GL/glx.h symlink? It's supposed to point to /usr/include/GL/glx.h-nvidia (which it does), but glx.h-nvidia doesn't exist. A file by the name of 'glx-nvidia' exists, and pointing glx.h to that makes OpenGL apps work correctly, but why is it doing this?

Is anyone else having this issue?

Code:

# grep include /var/log/packages/nvidia-driver-302.17-x86-2_SBo

usr/include/

usr/include/GL/

usr/include/GL/glext.h-nvidia

usr/include/GL/glxext.h-nvidia

usr/include/GL/glx-nvidia

usr/include/GL/gl.h-nvidia



# ls -l /usr/include/GL/glx.h

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Aug 27 14:21 /usr/include/GL/glx.h -> glx.h-nvidia

Quote:

Originally Posted by kingbeowulf (Post 4761330)

I got bitten - twice - by the recent NVidia driver updates. But you know what?

Prost! Dass die Gurgel ned verrost'! :D

("Apologies accepted" in Austrian, somehow...)

Keep up the good work, kingbeowulf.

apeitheo, just rename the bad file name

Code:

mv /usr/include/GL/glx-nvidia /usr/include/GL/glx.h-nvidia

and is fixed for Slackware14. This was brought up in another LQ thread. If you go to the site listed in my OP, you can install the brand spanking new ones. In those, the headers aren't copied over (ie deprecated).

kikinovak, Danke schön. See the OP above for "fixed" version - you should be running that one anyway. Its been crazy juggling 4 -current installs (both arch), work, and this silly ass driver.

Not up on my Austrian lately, but I assume you mean:

Solange man nüchtern ist,
gefällt das Schlechte.
Wie man getrunken hat,
weiss man das Rechte. - J.W. Goethe

Sorry, I didn't see the other thread. I just wanted to make sure it wasn't some unknown/obscure issue.

Thanks for your contributions! :)

I just used your Slackbuilds @ http://www.koenigcomputers.com/sbo-testing/14.0/system/ to make and install nvidia-kernel and nvidia-driver packages on Slackware 14 RC3 with no issue.

The README is missing in the nvidia-driver directory which caused the build to fail at first but that won't be hard to fix ;)

Maybe you could add a reminder in this README like "this package installs nvidia-installer, nvidia-xconfig and nvidia-settings, see the relevant manual pages" as some users could overlook that.

While you are at it, you could edit the README for nvidia-kernel as well, something like this:

Code:

sed -i s/edit the copy/edit the copy or run nvidia-xconfig/ README

as nvidia-xconfig provides many options specific to the nVidia driver which can be useful.

Huge thanks, keep up the good work.

Thanks, Didier. Added to my TO-DO list.