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[Lekensteyn <lekensteyn@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Bruno,

Some feature/bugfix patches (that 2k trunk-....patch file) may be added to
lucid and natty too,
but I the ...-ia32 changes do not make sense as the lucid and natty do not
support multiarch
and those virtualgl packages do already contain both the 32-bit and 64-bit
libraries.

We provide libjpeg-turbo 1.1.1 for lucid+natty in the testing repository
(which is our
sandbox for building) indeed.

It just occurred to me that Ubuntu ships updated drivers with
nvidia-current-updates.
The FAQ in the Ubuntu wiki probably needs to be updated that if you use that
package, KernelDriver=nvidia-current-updates must be set. LibraryPath and
ModulePath have to be adjusted in a similar way.

Now, I'll prepare a change for the preinst script to copy users from adm,
admin and
sudo to the group "bumblebee" and test it.

You can just copy the acpi-call package from testing to stable.

Regards,
Peter

On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Bruno Pagani <bruno.n.pagani@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>  Hi Peter,
>
> Ok for the uninstall behavior, that's correct.
>
> How would you update virtualgl for lucid and natty then ? Providing
> libjpeg-turbo is done by our repo, isn't it ?
>
> Copying adm, sudo(ers) and admin to bumblebee looks fine.
>
> I will update acpi-call too for people who needs it.
>
> Bruno
>
> Le 29/04/2012 19:03, Lekensteyn a écrit :
>
> Hi Bruno,
>
> I've just booted a fresh Live session of Kubuntu 12.04 AMD64 and can
> confirm that the new packages are
> working properly. I'll do another test with Ubuntu 12.04 I think.
>
> The "little problem with uninstall" is actually the expected behavior. If
> you install Bumblebee accidentally
> on a system with no Optimus, the configuration should not be forced to use
> the Mesa libs. Purging
> nvidia-current is the correct behavior.
>
> virtualgl depends on libturbojpeg because the static library could not be
> linked into the shared
> librrfaker.so library from virtualgl. Note: this change is **not**
> directly backportable to versions older
> than Oneiric because natty and older do not have libjpeg-turbo in the
> official repositories nor
> support for Multi-Arch.
>
> A workaround for the adduser stuff is by setting the default group to
> "adm" or "sudo" thus
> avoiding adding the default user to a group. This is really bad practise
> though as these
> groups have little relevance with bumblebee. What about copying the adm
> ("may read
> system logs"), sudo (sudoers users in 12.04 and later), admin (sudoers in
> 11.10 and before)
> members to bumblebee? That works in a default installation.
>
> Summarizing the packages that needs to be copied to stable (letters
> indicate ubuntu versions):
>
> - virtualgl: o,p (oneiric,precise)
> - bumblebee: l, n, o, p (no maverick, support is dropped)
> - bbswitch: lnop (copy from precise) (aside, I just copied p -> lno in
> testing)
>
> libjpeg-turbo is dropped from precise and later since the repositories
> already contain this
> package. We may drop it from oneiric too for the same reason, but let's
> keep it as it.
>
> acpi-call is useful for testing and I know that some are still using it to
> trigger a
> switch of the card for certain hardware. Let's copy 1.1.1 from testing to
> stable, lnop?
>
> Peter
>
> PS. I'm cc'ing this to the bumblebee ml as the public may be interested in
> this conversation
>
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Bruno Pagani <bruno.n.pagani@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>>  Hi Peter,
>>
>> Did saw that you've updated the packages. I did some test, all worked
>> fine. Update is OK, new installation on amd64 does also install i386
>> appropriate libs, so, looks perfect for me. Just faced a little problem
>> with uninstall, I lost 3D acceleration on Intel chip, but uninstalling
>> nvidia-current solved that.
>>
>> I've noticed that virtualgl now depends on libjpeg-turbo. I suppose this
>> is necessary ? Else, I find still clumsy this need to adduser. Don't we
>> have any alternatives for that ?
>>
>> If everything is OK for you too, I'm going to create missing packages for
>> other distributions, update all logs and script and upload those.
>>
>> Bruno
>>
>
>
>