There was no reply to the original bug #395243, asking for the 2006 version of the special NVPerfKit instrumented driver to be packaged. I note that there is also a similar bug #395398, where Randall Donald said that it appears the driver can be packaged normally, but the NVPerfKit tools cannot. That's fine with me; getting the driver to work seems to be the hard part. (Though a wrapper package which downloads the tools tarball, extracts it, and installs the non-redistributable files seems useful.)
Now that there is *FINALLY* a new version of NVPerfKit for Linux (apparently as of 2008-07-16), I'd like to add my voice to the users asking for at least the instrumented driver to be packaged. I tried downloading it and installing it myself on an up-to-date Debian testing amd64 box, but the best I can manage is to get all the way to '(II) Initializing extension GLX', followed by a 'backtrace:' line, and then end of the Xorg.0.log (no actual backtrace appears). I tried it both under 2.6.25-2-amd64 and 2.6.24-1-amd64; no luck either way. Thus, I think packaging magic from the Debian NVIDIA Maintainers would be a great help. Thank you in advance! -'f -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
