[mythtv-users] NVidia driver giving me grief

[R. G. Newbury]

On 05/14/2010 12:53 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> Hi
>
> On 14 May 2010 13:39, R. G. Newbury<newbury at mandamus.org>  wrote:
>> On consideration, I'm surprised that it failed the way it did. It may be an
>> error with the nvidia installer or maybe just that yum will install whatever
>> is demanded, which fooled 'configure', but not make. The hardware won't do
>> vdpau, and configure found everything it thought it needed. And make failed,
>> which from one point of view it should not have done: it should have
>> compiled if everything required is installed, even though it could never run
>> vdpau.
>
> The nvidia installer doesn't install libvdpau...

I think it does. Or at least creates a symlink.

I have only ever used the nvidia installer (never atrpms or rpmfusion 
for this) and I have, in /usr/lib:
[root at tor1 lib]# ls -al libvdpau*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   34 2010-03-17 13:40 libvdpau_nvidia.so ->
vdpau/libvdpau_nvidia.so.195.36.08
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   13 2010-03-17 13:40 libvdpau.so -> libvdpau.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   21 2010-03-17 13:40 libvdpau.so.1 -> 
libvdpau.so.195.36.08
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3624 2010-03-17 13:40 libvdpau.so.195.36.08
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   33 2010-03-17 13:40 libvdpau_trace.so -> 
vdpau/libvdpau_trace.so.195.36.08

and all links point to the libvdpau.so.195.36.08 library.

and in /usr/lib64

[root at tor1 lib64]# ls -al libvdpau*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   34 2010-03-17 13:40 libvdpau_nvidia.so -> 
vdpau/libvdpau_nvidia.so.195.36.08
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   13 2010-03-17 13:40 libvdpau.so -> libvdpau.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   21 2010-04-12 09:39 libvdpau.so.1 -> 
libvdpau.so.195.36.08
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8992 2010-03-13 19:20 libvdpau.so.1.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6864 2010-03-17 13:40 libvdpau.so.195.36.08
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   33 2010-03-17 13:40 libvdpau_trace.so -> 
vdpau/libvdpau_trace.so.195.36.08

Same as in /usr/lib/  -> libvdpau.so.195.36.08

The installer did NOT create a /usr/lib/vdpau directory. I only have a 
/usr/lib64/vdpau folder. It contains the largest file, 
libvdpau_nvidia.so.195.36.08 at 1.6MB. The other actual files are small.

Geoff

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