Bug#757370: vdpau-va-driver: Please add symlink for nouveau_drv_video.so

[Sebastian Ramacher]

Control: forwarded -1 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libva/2014-July/002515.html
Control: tags -1 + patch upstream

On 2014-08-07 14:56:39, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> Package: vdpau-va-driver
> Version: 0.7.4-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> See bug 705558. The second part of the report (the lack of
> libvdpau_nouveau.so) is fixed in mesa by the fix for that bug. However, the
> first part (symlinking vdpau_drv_video.so to nouveau_drv_video.so) is still
> necessary in order to get VDPAU to work on supported nouveau-driven cards.
> 
> Adding that symlink manually fixes the problem (as one would expect), so all
> that seems necessary is to add the symlink in this package, that is, from:
> 
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/vdpau_drv_video.so
> 
> to:
> 
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_drv_video.so

There is a patch available to add the symlink on the upstream mailing
list. I'll include it in the next upload.

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher
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