Hi All, As discussed in various venues before we have been working on getting the nvidia binary driver packaged in a way where users who want to can install it without having there being a significant chance of their Fedora installation ending up broken somehow. As part of this we've moved to libglvnd as the libGL (and friends) implementation so that the mesa and nvidia OpenGL stacks can co-exist without needing to play LD_LIBRARY_PATH tricks. Also the Xserver's config file syntax has been extended so that we can now make it automatically configure everything the right way even when the nvidia driver is used on optimus setups as well as automatically switch between the mesa / nouveau DDX and OpenGL stacks based on which kernel driver is loaded. TL;DR: userspace will no fully automatically use the right stack depending on which kernel driver is loaded, meaning that if the nvidia driver fails to load for some reason (e.g. it does not build after a kernel update) users will now simply get the nouveau stack rather then a black screen. Also see: http://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/16668.html I've been working together with Simone Caronni from the negativo17 repo to make sure that the nvidia packages there use the new Xorg syntax and that autofallback works smoothly. We're now at a point where I believe the nvidia-driver packages from the negativo17 repo are ready for general consumption and I would like to add the repo to the fedora-workstation-repositories package. Specifically I plan to add the following .repo file: [fedora-nvidia] name=negativo17 - Nvidia baseurl=https://negativo17.org/repos/nvidia/fedora-$releasever/$basearch/ enabled=0 skip_if_unavailable=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=https://negativo17.org/repos/RPM-GPG-KEY-slaanesh enabled_metadata=1 metadata_expire=6h [fedora-nvidia-source] name=negativo17 - Nvidia - Source baseurl=https://negativo17.org/repos/nvidia/fedora-$releasever/SRPMS enabled=0 skip_if_unavailable=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=https://negativo17.org/repos/RPM-GPG-KEY-slaanesh enabled_metadata=1 metadata_expire=6h If I understand the procedure correctly the Workstation Working Group needs to have a meeting and vote on this before I move forward with adding this .repo file, hence this mail. Regards, Hans _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
