Update nvidia-graphics-drivers to 381.09

[Luca Boccassi]

On Tue, 2017-05-02 at 10:15 +0200, Dominik Holland wrote:
> Am 04/28/2017 um 11:14 PM schrieb Luca Boccassi:
> 
> > On 28 April 2017 at 16:26, Dominik Holland
> > <dominik.holland at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > i'm using sid and working on the wayland support within Qt.
> > > 
> > > Is there a chance you can update the nvidia-drivers on sid to the
> > > latest
> > > version (381.09 ?)
> > > 
> > > Atleast that's the version which is watched here:
> > > https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=pkg-nvidia-devel%40list
> > > s.alioth.debian.org
> > > 
> > > thx
> > > 
> > >  Dominik
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Sid is unlikely until Stretch is released, but when there's time
> > for
> > the work to upload it 381 could hit experimental.
> 
> yeah, experimental works for me as well ;-)
> 
> > 
> > In the meanwhile you can build it from SVN:
> > 
> > https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Building_newer_releas
> > es_from_SVN
> > 
> > I've been running 381 built from there for a couple of weeks now
> > and
> > it's all fine.
> 
> Can you confirm that building it manually from there, doesn't break
> the
> glx-diversion ? I heavily need the glx-diversion as i need a working
> fallback for wayland compositing tests ;-)

Yes, the glx-diversion client package is one of the binaries from that
source: nvidia-alternative

> > 
> > Incidentally one of the changes with 375 as you most likely know is
> > the initial support for Wayland, so any feedback on the packages
> > would
> > be most welcome.
> 
> For me wayland support already started with 367 and that is currently
> the most stable one in regards to wayland.
> 375 has the problem that client surfaces cannot be resized from the
> client-side (both with qtwayland and the patched nvidia weston)
> 
> Do you know any bugtracker i can add those kind of bugs ? I already
> tried to ask on the developer forum, but it's full of X11 problems,
> it seems
> nobody there is interested in wayland support
> 
> Dominik

Besides the support forum, where sometimes the developers themselves
answer so it's probably your best bet, there's the support email alias:
linux-bugs at nvidia.com

There's also the egl-wayland library repository on Github: https://gith
ub.com/NVIDIA/egl-wayland

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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