Hi Hans, Thanks for all the work you and Simone has put into this so far, we will make sure to discuss this proposal at the next Working Group meeting. Christian ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Hans de Goede" <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Simone Caronni" <negativo17@xxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2017 10:42:35 AM > Subject: Proposal: Add negativo17.org nvidia-driver repo to fedora-workstation-repositories > > 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 > _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
