Re: new nvidia long term 346.35

On 22/01/2015 12:43 am, NullDev wrote:
> Duncan Brown wrote:
>> On 21/01/2015 12:56, NullDev wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Stephen Collier <mailto:[email protected]>
>>>> Wednesday, January 21, 2015 1:40 AM
>>>> I'm looking at 346.35 at the moment as it has some issues with el6
>>>> requiring gtk3. I should have some resolution over the next day.
>>>>
>>>> the linking problems should be fixed by running nvidia-graphics-switch
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Stephen
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>>>> mo.ucina <mailto:[email protected]>
>>>> Monday, January 19, 2015 10:17 PM
>>>> Hello Guys,
>>>>
>>>> I just loaded nvidia-graphics346.35-346.35-172.el7.x86_64 and can not
>>>> boot into graphic mode at all . There may be some other things in
>>>> there as well . I am going to fall back to 169 .
>>>>
>>>> Best Regards
>>>>
>>>> Milorad
>>>>
>>>> On 20/01/15 09:41, Stephen Collier wrote:
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>>>> Stephen Collier <mailto:[email protected]>
>>>> Monday, January 19, 2015 5:41 PM
>>>> Thanks I'll make the changes.
>>>>
>>>> Stephen
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my Samsung GALAXY S4 on the Telstra 4G network
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>>>> <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: NullDev
>>>> <[email protected]> </div><div>Date:20/01/2015 8:26 AM (GMT+10:00)
>>>> </div><div>To: "User discussion about ATrpms.net"
>>>> <[email protected]> </div><div>Subject: Re: [ATrpms-users] new
>>>> nvidia long term 346.35 </div><div>
>>>> </div>I had similar issues.  I ended up creating 2 symlinks and the
>>>> problem went away:
>>>>
>>>> /usr/lib64/vdpau/libvdpau_nvidia.so.1 ->
>>>> ../nvidia-graphics-343.36/vdpau/libvdpau_nvidia.so.1
>>>>
>>>> and
>>>>
>>>> /usr/lib64/vdpau/libvdpau_nvidia.so -> libvdpau_nvidia.so.1
>>>> Derek Burt Monday, January 19, 2015 4:03 PM
>>>> [email protected]
>>>> Milorad,
>>>>
>>>> I'm running 171 release on el6 x86_64 and f19 i386 which seem OK. 
>>>> There
>>>> may be something different as they are created in a completely 
>>>> different
>>>> way due to the creation on a vm now. I'll have a look and see if I can
>>>> find any more differences between 169 and 171.
>>>>
>>>> On the 365 front it should be built automatically - I'll check the
>>>> script.
>>>>
>>>> I had issues with vpdau on the latest packages (.65) on el7 x86_64.
>>>> I had to move the files for vdpau around to match what was in the .58
>>>> packages and move some symlinks to get everything working again.  My
>>>> apologies but I didn't document exactly what the issue was, was just
>>>> trying to get the frontend running again and didn't take good notes
>>>> :(  Sufficed to say, some of the vdpau related files had changed
>>>> locations, etc.  Other than vdpau, everything seems to be running
>>>> okay now.
>>>>
>>>> Derek
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>>>
>>> For whatever reason, "nvidia-graphics-switch" works on my centos6 box,
>>> but fails on my centos7 box with the following error.  Perhaps it is
>>> related?
>>>
>>> # nvidia-graphics-switch 343.36
>>>
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>   File "/usr/lib64/nvidia-graphics-helpers/nvidia-config-x.py", line
>>> 6, in <module>
>>>     import xf86config
>>> ImportError: No module named xf86config
>>>
>>> I've looked and either I'm blind (highly likely) or that module isn't
>>> available for centos7.
>>>
>> This error has been around for ages:
>>
>> http://lists.atrpms.net/pipermail/atrpms-users/2013-June/013739.html
>>
>> It would be nice to get it sorted, I have no idea how but I have great
>> faith in Stephen :)
>>
>> Dunc
>
> I've only recently (as in the last month or so) started getting this 
> error on this box.  I'm fairly religious about updating and have run 
> nvidia-graphics-switch on the centos7 box successfully in the past. 
> Perhaps it was fixed but was broken again?
>
> I'd be more than happy to provide log info if that would be helpful.
>
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xf86config has not been available since f19 I think from memory. It is 
not strictly required but nvidia-graphics-switch provides some important 
linking. I'll fix it put it the repo. I won't be able to do it until 
sometime next week.

Cheers
Stephen