Bug#864477: nvidia_icd.json does not refer to correct library when non-GLVND driver variant is installed

Alex Smith asmith at feralinteractive.com
Tue Jun 13 07:49:52 UTC 2017


On 12 June 2017 at 09:40, Alex Smith <asmith at feralinteractive.com> wrote:
> Interesting... an NVIDIA engineer explicitly said to me that the
> correct thing to do is use libGL.so.1 for non-GLVND and
> libGLX_nvidia.so.0 for GLVND.
>
> Seems like their installer is getting that wrong though - I've just
> tested here too, if I install without GLVND from their installer I get
> the wrong library path and a crash when I launch one of our affected
> games.
>
> I've pinged them about it again just to double check, I'll let you
> know what they say.

I've confirmed this again with NVIDIA, they said that the current
installer behaviour is a bug which they will fix.



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