NVidia components

[Brian Dilley]

I noticed in ubuntu 19 there were "headless" versions of the nvidia
drivers, but they do not exist for 18.  I need to use the GPU headless on a
server, might there be anything special that i need to do for that?

On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 4:34 AM Tim Müller <tim at centricular.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2020-01-09 at 02:27 -0800, Brian Dilley wrote:
>
> Hi Brian,
>
> Should I build the entirety of gstreamer from scratch?  Should I not
> install the gstreamer packages that come with ubuntu and instead build them
> with gst-build?  I noticed ubuntu 18.04 (LTS) has gstreamer 1.14 while
> ubuntu 19.x (beta) has 1.16... should I just build 1.16 from GStreamer
> master (I assume that GStreamer master is 1.16) on Ubuntu 18.04 ?
>
>
> master is master branch (1.17.x, to be 1.18 one day), 1.16 is 1.16 branch
> :)
>
> I don't think the ubuntu packages include the nvidia plugin, so you will
> likely have to build them yourself in any case.
>
> You can try to just build the 1.16 plugin of course and use package
> versions otherwise, but my recommendation would still be to not install the
> gstreamer packages at all and go for gst-build git master branch instead
> (perhaps with a sudo apt build-dep gstreamer1.0-plugins-base
> gstreamer1.0-plugins-good gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly
> gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gstreamer1.0-libav beforehand).
>
> Cheers
> Tim
>
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> Tim Müller, Centricular Ltd - http://www.centricular.com
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