Le 23/02/2017 à 15:29, Kristian (whoseos) a écrit :
Hi Bruno,
these packages contain a NVIDIA driver beta release that is not a usual NVIDIA beta driver, but a special Vulkan beta driver just for developers, based on the 375.XX-version from the end of last year and with support for still unreleased Vulkan extensions:
https://developer.nvidia.com/vulkan-driver
That's the reason I added the "vulkan" and the "developer" keyword to the package names – to indicate that this release is a special driver for game/graphics-developers which need the newest experimental Vulkan features. The latest official NVIDIA drivers do not contain the these Vulkan extensions – only version 375.27.10.
These Vulkan extensions are a requirement for yesterday's beta release of Valve's SteamVR for Linux. I created the packages first for myself as copies from the current *nvidia-beta packages and planned to just upload them somewhere (Gits or pastebin or something else) and mention them on Github. But I was asked by other Arch-using developers to submit them to AUR instead:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/250820/discussions/5/133257959063392200/#c133...
The (renamed) package is already mentioned in the official SteamVR-On-Linux README:
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamVR-for-Linux
I really hope I didn't create a mess with that. I expect a life time of the packages for just a few weeks or months until Khronos officially announces the Vulkan extensions and NVIDIA releases a regular beta driver that contains them. The official announcement should actually be next week during the Game Developers Conference.
Regards, Kristian
OK, that’s fine. I don’t know how often NVIDIA does developer builds separated from beta ones and if they can be multiple different developer build at a given time, but maybe it would make more sense to just call those packages -developer (rather than developer-vulkan-beta) and track those -developer builds if they are one living branch. Anyway, I’m deleting the 6 wrong ones since they are even less correctly named. ;) Regards, Bruno