On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 02:41:09PM -0700, Geoffrey Broadwell wrote: > 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!
I can take a look at it and see what would be involved. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]