Does anyone know what happened to the package named nvidia-settings? It use to be harboured at packman, but it doesn’t seem to be anywhere.
It comes packaged with the x11-video-nVidiaXX nowadays (the ‘official rpm packages’).
I asked for it to be removed 1.5 years ago, and after some discussion it really got removed.
Some reasons:
- nvidia-settings is included in the nvidia driver packages anyway (since ages), it gets installed if you install the driver. No need to install it separately, and it won’t work (or makes sense) anyway without the nvidia driver.
- the package on Packman was always outdated, and often did not even work with current nvidia drivers, or at least did not support all options. And there maybe might be problems too if you use a newer version on older drivers (if you need the legacy drivers e.g.)
- the nvidia-settings package overwrote some files from the nvidia driver packages, so there even was a conflict. YaST/zypper didn’t check for file conflicts back then, but if you tried to install it via RPM you’d get an error message. Starting with openSUSE 13.2 YaST/zypper do check for file conflicts as well, so the package would even be uninstallable now.
Is there any specific reason why you ask for it?
Wow! That was a quick response. Thank-you for the info. I didn’t know. Yes, there is a reason for asking about it. There are times where I like seeing a more complete information concerning my graphics setup, and at times to make certain “tweaks”. Actually, the main reason is because it use to work, and now it doesn’t. I hadn’t known that it now came with the driver. Good.
What do you mean with “it use to work, and now it doesn’t”?
Can’t you start nvidia-settings? Can’t you make configuration changes?
It should work the same as before, unless nvidia changed/broke something.
I hadn’t known that it now came with the driver. Good.
Well, it always came with the driver AFAICT. At least according to [packman] nvidia-settings it was already part of the 71.86.15 legacy driver, which has been released in 2011.
But it’s source is available as separate download on nvidia’s servers.
On Mon 02 Feb 2015 06:46:01 PM CST, wolfi323 wrote:
kerijan2003;2692737 Wrote:
> There are times where I like seeing a more complete information
> concerning my graphics setup, and at times to make certain “tweaks”.
> Actually, the main reason is because it use to work, and now it
> doesn’t.
What do you mean with “it use to work, and now it doesn’t”?
Can’t you start nvidia-settings? Can’t you make configuration changes?
It should work the same as before, unless nvidia changed/broke
something.
> I hadn’t known that it now came with the driver. Good.
Well, it always came with the driver AFAICT. At least according to
[packman] nvidia-settings it was already part of the 71.86.15 legacy
driver, which has been released in 2011.
But it’s source is available as separate download on nvidia’s servers.
Hi
AFAIK, the only reason it’s on packman was for the development lib to
include the nvidia build option to conky.
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On Mon 02 Feb 2015 06:48:24 PM CST, malcolmlewis wrote:
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On Mon 02 Feb 2015 06:46:01 PM CST, wolfi323 wrote:
kerijan2003;2692737 Wrote:
> There are times where I like seeing a more complete information
> concerning my graphics setup, and at times to make certain “tweaks”.
> Actually, the main reason is because it use to work, and now it
> doesn’t.
What do you mean with “it use to work, and now it doesn’t”?
Can’t you start nvidia-settings? Can’t you make configuration changes?
It should work the same as before, unless nvidia changed/broke
something.
> I hadn’t known that it now came with the driver. Good.
Well, it always came with the driver AFAICT. At least according to
[packman] nvidia-settings it was already part of the 71.86.15 legacy
driver, which has been released in 2011.
But it’s source is available as separate download on nvidia’s servers.
Hi
AFAIK, the only reason it’s on packman was for the development lib to
include the nvidia build option to conky.
[/QUOTE]
Hi
Ahh that’s right, it’s renamed…so still there…
https://pmbs.links2linux.de/package/show/Multimedia/libXNVCtrl
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Yes, but this creates only the package libXNVCtrl that contains the devel files needed to build conky with nvidia support, not nvidia-settings itself.
I wasn’t completely correct before though: nvidia-settings was not removed completely back then, only its publishing had been disabled and the built package got removed from the repo.
But recently (2 weeks ago) it got replaced completely by this libXNVCtrl package which only contains the devel files.
No, it wouldn’t start. So, I uninstalled it, and just to be safe, I forced reinstalled anything that had nvidia as part of it’s filename.
That’s what I’m thinking. Even now, after the changes I made above, I still can’t get it to run. I’ve tried starting it in a konsole as my regular user (as we use to be able to do) or as root, and it just stops as shown in the following:
:~> nvidia-settingsFontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/56-user.conf", line 14: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated. please move it to /home/davidc/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf manually
[VS] Software VDPAU backend library initialized
libva info: VA-API version 0.34.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_34
I have to do a Ctrl-C in order to stop it, of course.
Anyone have any ideas??
Looks like a problem somebody else had 3 months ago when 13.2 was released:
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/502330-13-2-Nvidia-vdpau-nvidia-settings
So try uninstalling libvdpau_va_gl1 (which redirects VDPAU to VA-API, a bad idea with the nvidia driver as it only supports VDPAU natively), apparently nvidia-settings is using this instead of nvidia’s libvdpau.
Thank-you wolfi323. That was, in fact, the problem. Great to get this cleared up.