Bug 523254 – x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers - Provide an init.d script for nvidia-persistenced to replace /etc/init.d/nvidia-smi

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Marius Brehler 2014-09-19 17:38:55 UTC]

nvidia-smi seems to be near end of live (see [1]). Instead nvidia now provides a persistance daemon, shipped with drivers 319 and higher [2]. An sample init script should be provided at /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/sample/nvidia-persistenced-init.tar.bz2.
This example isn't shipped with gentoo, but could be used in combination with /etc/init.d/nvidia-smi to write a new init.d script which should replace /etc/init.d/nvidia-smi.


[1] http://docs.nvidia.com/deploy/driver-persistence/index.html#persistence-mode
[2] http://docs.nvidia.com/deploy/driver-persistence/index.html#persistence-daemon-supported-environments

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2014-09-19 21:55:06 UTC]

Fixed in 343.22-r1. Thanks for the report!

[Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2014-09-19 22:09:26 UTC]

In -r2 I added /etc/conf.d/nvidia-persistenced as well.

[Comment 3 Marius Brehler 2014-09-22 07:20:46 UTC]

Would it be possible to fix this for nvidia-drivers-340.32 too? 343.22 is the current version in the short lived branch, whereas 340.32 is the latest version in the long lived branch. Only the long lived branch comes with support for Telsa cards.

[1] http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html