nvidia-testing PPA driver version 470

[Timo Aaltonen]

On 7.7.2021 2.59, Kyle J. McKay wrote:
> On Jul 5, 2021, at 03:45, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
> 
>> On 5.7.2021 12.24, Kyle J. McKay wrote:
>>> Hello Alberto,
>>> Thank you very much for posting the i386/amd64 builds of the
>>> nvidia 470 drivers!  Much appreciated.  :)
>>> I have been wanting to switch to Wayland for some time.
>>> Reviewing the release notes for the 470 driver:
>>>   
>>> <https://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/470.42.01/README/xwayland.html> 
>>>
>>> It lists these as "necessary to accelerated rendering on
>>> Xwayland with the NVIDIA driver":
>>> * "DRM KMS must be enabled."
>>>     /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-drm.conf:
>>>         options nvidia-drm modeset=1
>>>   CHECK.
>>> * "The installed copy of Xwayland should be a build from the master
>>>   branch of https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver at least
>>>   as recent as commit c468d34c. Note that if this requirement is
>>>   not satisfied, the NVIDIA GPU can still be used for rendering,
>>>   however it will fall back to a suboptimal path for presentation
>>>   resulting in degraded performance."
>>>   commit 763f4fb278 cherry picks c468d34c and is first included in
>>>   the xwayland-21.1.1.901 release on 2021-06-30 which
>>>     https://packages.ubuntu.com/impish/xwayland
>>>   impish now has. :)
>>>   CHECK.
>>> * "libxcb version 1.13 or later must be present."
>>>   For some years now it looks like.
>>>   CHECK.
>>> * "If using the GNOME desktop environment, kms-modifiers must be
>>>   enabled through gsettings. This can be done with the following
>>>   command:
>>>     gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features 
>>> [\"kms-modifiers\"]
>>>   " trivial.
>>>   CHECK.
>>> * "egl-wayland version 1.1.7 or later must be present (if installed
>>>   separately from the the NVIDIA driver)."
>>>     https://packages.ubuntu.com/impish/libnvidia-egl-wayland1
>>>   Version 1.1.5   Oh no.  :(
>>> Foiled by egl-wayland.
>>> I notice that Arch linux has built version 1.1.7:
>>>   https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/egl-wayland/
>>> And it's been released upstream (2021-05-11):
>>>   https://github.com/NVIDIA/egl-wayland/releases/tag/1.1.7
>>> Any chance you might be able to add an i386/amd64 build of version
>>> 1.1.7 libnvidia-egl-wayland1 to your
>>>   https://launchpad.net/~albertomilone/+archive/ubuntu/nvidia-testing
>>> PPA repository?
>>> Or perhaps get impish's libnvidia-egl-wayland1 version bumped up to
>>> 1.1.7 since that version appears to have actually been released?
>>> I have Cc'd this message to the maintainer of the libnvidia-egl-wayland1
>>> package just in case.
>>> Thank you,
>>> Kyle McKay
>>
>> egl-wayland 1.1.7-1 uploaded to experimental, will get synced to impish
>> later.
>>
>> -- 
>> t
> 
> Timo thank you very much!
> 
> The 1.1.7 build has made its way into impish already:
> 
>    https://packages.ubuntu.com/impish/libnvidia-egl-wayland1
> 
>    Package: libnvidia-egl-wayland1 (1:1.1.7-1) [universe]
>    amd64 arm64 armhf ppc64el s390x
> 
> However, since libnvidia-gl:
> 
>    # currently available 465
>    https://packages.ubuntu.com/impish/libnvidia-gl-465
> 
>    # experimental build of 470
>    
> <https://launchpad.net/~albertomilone/+archive/ubuntu/nvidia-testing/+sourcepub/12507185/+listing-archive-extra> 
> 
> 
> both provide "amd64 i386" but the libnvidia-egl-wayland1 impish
> package lacks an i386 build, the i386 version of the libnvidia-gl
> drivers will be crippled when it comes to wayland performance when
> running 32-bit only graphics apps (i.e. games) on a 64-bit system.
> 
> Of course, anyone so affected can just grab the 1.1.7 egl-wayland
> i386 .deb directly from:
> 
>    http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/egl-wayland/
> 
> But it would be nice to get the ubuntu libnvidia-egl-wayland1
> universe package updated to include i386 so that's not necessary.
> 
> Any idea how to make that happen?
> 
> I have cc'd this message to the universe maintainers list just in case.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Kyle McKay
> 

It just needed to be added to the whitelist of packages to build on i386 
as Alberto mentioned, and that has been done now. Will take a while to 
appear on the archive.


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t