Bug#900378: glx-alternative-nvidia: Fails to enable proprietary accelerated OpenGL and does not report the problem

[Luca Boccassi]

Control: reassign -1 nvidia-driver
Control: forcemerge 900248 -1

On Tue, 2018-05-29 at 21:08 +0100, Tony Houghton wrote:
> Package: glx-alternative-nvidia
> Version: 0.8.3
> Severity: normal
> 
> Since a dist-upgrade I noticed a poor framerate and high CPU usage in
> Minecraft. glxinfo seems to indicate it's using software rendering:
> 
> name of display: :1
> display: :1  screen: 0
> direct rendering: Yes
> server glx vendor string: SGI
> server glx version string: 1.4
> ...
> Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
>     Vendor: VMware, Inc. (0xffffffff)
>     Device: llvmpipe (LLVM 6.0, 128 bits) (0xffffffff)
>     Version: 18.0.4
>     Accelerated: no
> ...
> 
> I think the source of the problem is that the available version of
> most
> of the binary packages of nvidia-graphics-drivers is 390.59-1 but for
> libgl1-glvnd-nvidia-glx it's 390.48-3 (can there really be a lag of a
> whole day for packages from the same source package to make it into
> the
> archive?) so it can't be installed. But seeing as
> glx-alternative-nvidia's main job is to activate the proprietary
> driver
> it should report the problem if it's unable to do that and/or it
> should
> depend on all the packages it needs.

Those binaries are gone and apt should prompt to autoremove them.
The same has already been reported, so merging the bugs.

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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