NVidia's Latest Long Term Driver, 361.28. Please see correction in post #7.
Edit in: Please see correction in post #7.
Has anyone installed NVidia's latest long term driver, 361.28? Under release highlights they say, Quote:
When installing 361.28, it comes up with a message that it can't find or create two or three symbolic links related to libvdpau, but other than that it appears to work OK, except it did cause a small, but not serious problem running a ms-windows application under WINE. Anyone else had similar experiences? Thanks. |
Maybe the driver overwrote a few of the stock files for vdpau. Have you tried reinstalling libvdpau?
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nvidia like to delete libraries and replace them with symlinks to their own crap, make sure you they didn't leave any old symlinks behind from the previous versions.
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I am staying on 352.x until I have more time to research the new branch. The entire build system changed at 355.x.
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I've installed it on 14.1 with custom kernel 4.1.17-smp
There was something with old modeline that no longer works, just needed to replace it with "CRT-1:nvidia-auto-select +0+0" Traditionally, this would reduce my resolution to 1024x768 but it seems external EDID is now supported and working fine so I just include these in xorg.conf Code:
Option "CustomEDID" "CRT-1:/lib/firmware/1680x1050.bin" From what I can tell, vdpau (from SBo) works, opengl in wine works too, can't say I've had any problems with it. |
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Boy, was I wrong! That's what I get for not writing things down.
For a second time I installed the 361.28 and here are the errors. They all start with Quote:
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That pretty much tells me you did not reinstall mesa after uninstalling Nvidia. and during the time after you installed that driver you did some upgrades that where part of the xorg. remember anytime any part of the xorg build of slackware is updated. you need to uninstall the nvidia driver first then upgrade. or you will get them warnings.
In slackware 14.1 Pat did one or 2 xorg changes. In current we had had so many it hard to keep up with. go to the source folder of the xorg in slackware look at the different libraries that may affect your driver. as for libvdpau we have had that warning in nvidia for over 5 years. that's why that build is part of slackbuilds and is now default in current 14.2 beta. You should always uninstall the nvidia before installing a new. |
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Ok I am using the latest that has warnings for the /usr/lib32 people and the /usr/lib people that do not go the /usr/lib64 way.
and since I run multi-lib I tested it in my 32 bit games it works fine. So the warnings are just that. Seems to be a nice driver so far for my gtx 960 . you must build it with --glvnd-glx-client option to get the glvnd-glx client if not it defaults to the legacy way. Code:
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If you're using the .run installer, you will run into this every time there's a kernel/xorg/mesa upgrade, I have dealt with it like this: Code:
#!/bin/bash Note the NV*.run -A output in case you want other options. |
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Just for chuckles, I did a fresh install of Slackware64-current this afternoon and the same errors popped up with the 361.28 version of the driver. This has never happened with previous versions. |
You're right, I checked on -current64 (without multilib) and could replicate the same error if 32 bit compatibility libs are chosen for install.
As I don't normally use multilib or these compatibility libs, I've had no such error in my logs. Could be a bug with the install script for 64 bit, since it doesn't happen at all on pure 32 bit system. |
Stumbled across the new 364.12-Beta driver yesterday and it installed and has been running flawlessly, unlike 361.28.
http://www.nvidia.com/download/drive...x/100577/en-us |
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