[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#566518: nvidia-vdpau-driver: bad /usr/lib/libvdpau_nvidia.so symlink

[Jonathan Dray]

Package: nvidia-vdpau-driver
Version: 190.53-1
Severity: grave

Hello,

I finally got vdpa work on my debian box with the 190.53-1 nvidia driver !!

Here is the way to go :

1. Install all nvidia packages except nvidia-libvdpau1, it isn't needed.

2. Install libvdpau1 package instead. It provides the libvdpau wrapper
library, the
libvdpau_trace debugging library and the header files. It is a freely
licensed alternative
to the nvidia-libvdpau1 package.

3. Modify /usr/lib/libvdpau_nvidia.so symlink to link to
/usr/lib/vdpau/libvdpau.so.190.5.
Thanks Remi Vanicat for this one :)

Really important links to understand what happens :

  * http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-announce/2009-September/001036.html
  * http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.bugs.dist/browse_thread/thread/9cfd7bf03f52d806/f0027a1e9cb69c4b?lnk=gst&q=547248#f0027a1e9cb69c4b

Thanks,

Jonathan Dray

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