nvidia-testing PPA driver version 470

[Kyle J. McKay]

On Jul 7, 2021, at 07:33, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> -- 
> t


Thank you, I see that impish now has an i386 build of egl-wayland  
1.1.7 available.

As the final coup de grâce for this campaign, :)  I've filed a bug  
report asking for the egl-wayland package to be moved from universe to  
main:

   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/egl-wayland/+bug/1935082

Thanks for all your help with this Timo and Alberto!

--Kyle