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@xiota Updated pkgbuild thanks for the help in fixing but a little adjustment this script does not work with the new versions of the driver nvidia because it does not need to work with him the firmware files have not changed and the only reason why I decided to update the package is to abandon python 2 and x86 architecture in the Arch

Here's a PKGUILD that merges extracted firmware from 340.108 and 325.15. nouveau-fw.zip It also runs sha256sum on the extracted files. The script doesn't currently work with newer driver versions.

Did some digging.

This script is from a deprecated project [0]. The new project's [1] script is python3. Gentoo is using this newer script [2]. This should be a trivial change for us.

It seems that we're using the 32-bit blob bc in the past 32 & 64 bit blobs contained the same fw [3]. However, we're now only seeing new releases in 64-bit. Compare 32-bit [4] to 64-bit [5].

The fw we're getting is damn near a decade old at this point. Presumably updating this will require splitting the package into various legacy & newer versions, since these breaks in backwards compatibility come from Nvidia itself [6]. If I had half the knowledge of Nvidia internals and the state of nouveau that MuPuF has, I'd look into this, but I don't. The changes here will likely be non-trivial and require significant domain expertise.

[0] - https://github.com/imirkin/re-vp2/pull/7#issuecomment-621921580 [1] - https://github.com/envytools/firmware [2] - https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/sys-firmware/nvidia-firmware/nvidia-firmware-340.32-r1.ebuild [3] - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nouveau-fw?O=20#comment-458842 [4] - https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/ [5] - https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/ [6] - https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/legacy-gpu/

Update Released

This package needs a new maintainer, maybe.

@MuPuf it might be worth updating to the version of extract_firmware.py in envytools for python3 compatibility: https://github.com/envytools/firmware/blob/master/extract_firmware.py. It works alright with your PKGBUILD and the following diff:

11,12c11,12
< makedepends=('python2')
< source=("https://raw.github.com/imirkin/re-vp2/master/extract_firmware.py"
---
> makedepends=('python3')
> source=("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/envytools/firmware/master/extract_firmware.py"
21c21
<   python2 extract_firmware.py
---
>   python3 extract_firmware.py

Can you update this? Or are the firmwares up to date regardless of what driver version there is?

$ egrep CARCH /etc/makepkg.conf

CARCH="x86_64"

(pacman 5.2.2-2 - https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/pacman/)

So either you changed your makepkg.conf some time ago, or you are not using Arch.

I was able to use makepkg after changing CARCH="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" to CARCH="x86_64" in makepkg.conf

Hi, I'm having trouble making this package

with makechrootpkg, the extraction script doesn't seem to be creating the needed (sub)directories:

Uncompressing NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86 325.15NVIDIA-Linux-x86-325.15.run: line 974: /tmp/makeself.yVujfBX2/xz: No such file or directory Extraction failed.

and with makepkg, a strange dependency error occurs:

==> Checking runtime dependencies... ==> Installing missing dependencies... error: target not found: pc-linux-gnu[@] ==> ERROR: 'pacman' failed to install missing dependencies. ==> Missing dependencies: -> pc-linux-gnu[@] ==> ERROR: Could not resolve all dependencies.