Bug 1011618

What about uninstalling nvidia-computeG03/nvidia-computeG04? I'm not sure whether NVIDIA is aware of this issue. Daniel?

then I would have my graphics drivers and would not be able to use my computer

opps...meant to say that I would not have my drivers

Which is wrong. Have you ever looked into the content of this package?

no... I have not. And even if I did... I would not know what to change

(In reply to Eli Wapniarski from comment #5)
> no... I have not. And even if I did... I would not know what to change

I didn't suggest to change anything in nvidia-computeG04 package, just not install or uninstall it. It's an optional package for customers using CUDA or OpenCL, i.e. GPGPU. By default it's preselected, but you can unselect or uninstall it.

ah... OK... I can try that... If its not needed then everything should be good. I will let you know by sometime tomorrow

Thanks

I installed libOpenCL1 from the pontosroy repo. This time it did not complain about dependancies.

After that I tried to uninstall and got the following.

I hope I did not break something.

rpm -e nvidia-computeG04-367.57-28.1.x86_64
error: Failed dependencies:
        libnvidia-ml.so.1()(64bit) is needed by (installed) x11-video-nvidiaG04-367.57-28.1.x86_64
        nvidia-computeG04 is needed by (installed) x11-video-nvidiaG04-367.57-28.1.x86_64

to further this .... I uninstalled both:

libOpenCl1 and nvidia-computeG04

and then tried to reinstall both and got

File /usr/lib64/libOpenCL.so.1.0.0
  from install of
     nvidia-computeG04-367.57-28.1.x86_64 (nVidia Graphics Drivers)
  conflicts with file from install of
     libOpenCL1-2.2.8-15.1.x86_64 (home:pontostroy:X11)


looking inside the rpms I indeed see that there is a conflict and indeed they are different libraries:

in /usr/lib64

libOpenCl1
----------
@libOpenCL.so.1                18
*libOpenCL.so.1.0.0            121320

nvidia-computeG04
-----------------
@libOpenCL.so.1                18
*libOpenCL.so.1.0.0            26328

the library provided by NVidia package is obviously smaller.

For the time being there is no obvious way to resolve the conflict and since I am using the nividia drivers and the dependancy of libnvidia-ml.so.1 for the x11-video-nvidiaG04 then no gallium_nine patched wine for me :(

I hope somehow this can get resolved given the proprietary nature of the NVidia drivers

Ok. Just figured out that a tool called nvidia-debugdump, which is being used by nvidia-bug-report.sh, (meanwhile?) needs libnvidia-ml.so.1.

The purpose of nvidia-computeG04 is to have GPGPU functionality without the need of installing x11-video-nvidiaG04 and that way big parts of the X stack.

I was wrong, currently it's not possible to install x11-video-nvidiaG04 without installing nvidia-computeG04. Another reason than the dependancy to libnvidia-ml.so.1 is the need of /etc/modprobe.d/XX-nvidia.conf for both packages. So nvidia-computeG04 is currently needed by x11-video-nvidiaG04.

One may want to split out libnvidia-ml.so.1 and /etc/modprobe.d/XX-nvidia.conf to an additional package, which then is required by nvidia-computeG04 and x11-video-nvidiaG04. But it make things even more complicated. I would like to avoid that.

One additional information:

http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/355.06/README/installedcomponents.html

[...]
Two OpenCL libraries (/usr/lib/libOpenCL.so.1.0.0, /usr/lib/libnvidia-opencl.so.355.06); the former is a vendor-independent Installable Client Driver (ICD) loader, and the latter is the NVIDIA Vendor ICD. A config file /etc/OpenCL/vendors/nvidia.icd is also installed, to advertise the NVIDIA Vendor ICD to the ICD Loader.

Dup of bnc#1011167.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1011167 ***

Yeah, libOpenCL should probably be dropped from the NVIDIA driver package, and the package (and others that require the OpenCL ICD) should depend upon a separate package which provides the OpenCL ICD.

Thanks Daniel.

After checking the README of this libOpenCL package I'm no longer sure it's a good idea to replace NVIDIA's libOpenCL.so.1 one with that one. It may work together with NVIDIA's driver, when available during build time (which is unlikely). For other vendors it then may not work at all. I'm not convinced
replacing NVIDIA's libOpenCL.so.1.

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This package aims at creating an Open Source alternative to vendor specific
OpenCL ICD loaders.

The main difficulties to create such software is that the order of
function pointers in a structure is not publicy available.
  This software maintains a YAML database of all known and guessed
entries.

  If the configure script is called with --enable-update-database,
then:
- a dummy OpenCL implementation using available headers on the system
  is created
- this dummy OpenCL implementation is installed system-wide (root
  access needed) with the file dummy.icd in /etc/OpenCL/vendors/
- a test program then calls every function defined in the
  headers and thus obtains the function mapping inside the demultiplexer
So, if an other OpenCL ICD loader is installed on the system, this
allows us to discover the mapping of new entries in the structure,
entries that are then recoreded in the YAML database.
  Of course, if the currently installed OpenCL ICD loader is this one,
there wont be any problems but no new mapping will be discovered.

This package also delivers a skeleton of bindings to incorporate inside an
OpenCL implementation to give it ICD functionalities.

Main Make targets:
all/check/install/...: builds the library and bindings from database
update-database: adds new functions to the database from the currently
  installed OpenCL ICD Loader. Needs root permission.
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