Bug 523254

Summary:	x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers - Provide an init.d script for nvidia-persistenced to replace /etc/init.d/nvidia-smi
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Marius Brehler <marius.brehler+gentoo>
Component:	[OLD] Library	Assignee:	Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) <jer>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	marius.brehler+gentoo
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://docs.nvidia.com/deploy/driver-persistence/index.html#installation
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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) gentoo-dev

2014-09-19 21:55:06 UTC

Fixed in 343.22-r1. Thanks for the report!

Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

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