Bug#827161: [nvidia-driver] Any chance to get NVIDIA 364.12 soon?

[Luca Boccassi]

On Mon, 2016-06-13 at 17:34 +0300, Bogdan Vatra wrote:
> On Monday 13 June 2016 15:06:44 Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > On Mon, 2016-06-13 at 16:56 +0300, Bogdan Vatra wrote:
> > > On Monday 13 June 2016 15:44:26 Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> > > > On 2016-06-13 14:49, Bogdan Vatra wrote:
> > > > > I just tried 364 and it doesn't work on Linux 4.6 :( I had to go back
> > > > > to
> > > > > 352. Shall I try 367 :) ?
> > > > 
> > > > I'll try to propagate the 4.6 patches from 352 to the newer relases
> > > > tonight
> > > 
> > > I installed 367 and I'm running it right now, seems to be ok.
> > > 
> > > Though VK support is not working. First and foremost it doesn't copy
> > > nvidia_icd.json to /usr/share/vulkan/implicit_layer.d and even when I copy
> > > it, it still fails to open it, because the vk_loader fails to "map" the
> > > functions names (vkGetInstanceProcAddr" ->
> > > "vk_optimusGetInstanceProcAddr")
> > > even the mapping is in the json file
> > > [...]
> > > 
> > >         "functions": {
> > >         
> > >             "vkGetInstanceProcAddr": "vk_optimusGetInstanceProcAddr"
> > >         
> > >         },
> > > 
> > > [...]
> > > 
> > > BogDan.
> > 
> > I haven't looked into Vulkan yet.
> > 
> > I assume the json needs to be copied in the package. Could you please
> > open a new bug, with some details on how to reproduce this problem? I'll
> > have a look at fixing it tonight, and an easy way to test it will help a
> > lot.
> > 
> 
> Erratum: the driver & loader are working grate! I copied it to the wrong 
> folder :) 

Good news, thanks for testing it

> As requested I created a new bug report (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=827188)  with more info about what's needed and how to 
> test it.
> 
> Cheers,
> BogDan.

Thanks, will take care of it later tonight

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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