Packaging issues in nvidia-current

Bug #704607 reported by Brandon Snider
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Alberto Milone

Bug Description

Several issues exist with the 260 blob as packaged currently in Natty. A new file has been added to the shared libs, libnvcuvid.so.$version. It needs to be installed. Also, the 32-bit links file adds links to the file libXvMCNVIDIA.so.$version, except that file is not being installed by the rules file, so the links are broken. Both of those files can be installed by adding;

 dh_install -p$(PKG_driver) "$(dirname_x86)/libnvcuvid.so*" "$(PKG_libdir32)"
 dh_install -p$(PKG_driver) "$(dirname_x86)/libXvMCNVIDIA.so.*" "$(PKG_libdir32)"

to the empty lines 247 and 250 in the rules file.

The 32-bit and regular links have to be added for the libnvcuvid lib as well.

Changed in nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Alberto Milone (albertomilone)
status: New → In Progress
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Alberto Milone (albertomilone) wrote :

I have fixed this bug in my git branch and I'll upload a new package as soon as we get a driver that is compatible with Natty.

Here's the relevant commit:
https://github.com/tseliot/nvidia-graphics-drivers/commit/6c587668d7c6904e955bd7acecc6511c47ca4d5b

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :
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This bug was fixed in the package nvidia-graphics-drivers - 270.29-0ubuntu1

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nvidia-graphics-drivers (270.29-0ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    - Added official support for xserver 1.10. The -ignoreABI option
      is no longer required with this version of the server.
    - Updated the NVIDIA kernel module to ensure that all system memory
      allocated by it for use with GPUs or within user-space components of the
      NVIDIA driver stack is initialized to zero. A new NVIDIA kernel module
      option, InitializeSystemMemoryAllocations, allows administrators to
      revert to the previous behavior.
    - Added preliminary support for xserver 1.10.
    - Reorganized the NVIDIA driver's /proc file system layout to better
      reflect current needs: /proc/driver/nvidia/cards/0..N has been
      moved to /proc/driver/nvidia/gpus/0..N/information
    - Added new shared library: libnvidia-ml.so.
    - NVML provides programmatic access to static information and monitoring
      data for NVIDIA GPUs, as well as limited managment capabilities. It is
      intended for use with Tesla compute products. See web-based
      documentation and associated nvml.h header for more info.
    - Added a new X configuration option "3DVisionDisplayType" to specify
      the display type when NVIDIA 3D Vision is enabled with a non
      3D Vision ready display.
    - Fixed several bugs relating to hardware-accelerated gradients, which were
      causing visual corruption in some of the default Ubuntu GNOME themes.
    - Modified colormap updates to no longer be synchronized to vblank. This
      allows applications to send XStoreColor and XStoreColors requests faster
      than the screen's refresh rate. This behavior can be controlled by a new
      NV-CONTROL attribute, NV_CONTROL_SYNC_LUT_UPDATES. By default, LUT updates
      are not synchronized. This may cause flickering in some applications that
      use the colormap to perform animation, such as xpilot running on a depth 8
      X screen. If you experience flickering, try running:
      nvidia-settings -a [gpu:0]/SynchronousPaletteUpdates=1
    - Added support for the following GPUs:
      o GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    - Added NV-CONTROL event notification for NV_CTRL_FRAMELOCK_SYNC_READY status
      changes.
    - Added a new X configuration option "Interactive", which defaults to enabled,
      but can be disabled to allow long-running GPU compute programs to run
      concurrently with X.
    - Fixed a bug in the VDPAU presentation queue that could cause VDPAU "display
      preemption" when rendering to tiny or zero-sized windows or pixmaps.
    - Fixed a bug in VDPAU which prevented use of the overlay presentation queue
      following an application exiting without gracefully destroying its VDPAU
      presentation queue.
  * debian/control{.in}:
    - Depend on ${xinpdriver:Depends} (LP: #616214).
  * debian/nvidia-current.postrm{.in}:
    - Make sure that the driver's directory is removed (LP: #540143).
  * debian/nvidia-current.links{32}{.in}:
    - Add links to libnvcuvid*.so* and to libnvidia-ml*.so* for both 32bit
      and 64bit (LP: #704607).
  * debia...

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Changed in nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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