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A VA-API implemention using NVIDIA's NVDEC
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How to restore symlink to VDPAU after removing VA-API? #235

Closed Scotty-Trees closed 1 year ago

Scotty-Trees commented 1 year ago

According to the removal documentation on this GitHub:

By default the driver installs itself as /usr/lib64/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so (this might be /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so on some distros). To uninstall the driver, simply remove this file. In addition, this file is usually symlinked to /usr/lib64/dri/vdpau_drv_video.so (or /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/vdpau_drv_video.so) if the VDPAU to VA-API driver is installed, so this symlink will need to be restored for that driver to work normally again.

I'm on Fedora 38 Gnome, and tested a few things on here, but didn't get the results I was looking for. Just trying to undo everything I did when I was testing. Is there anyway to restore the symlink like you mentioned?

elFarto commented 1 year ago

Run this command from the /usr/lib64/dri/ directory:

sudo ln -s vdpau_drv_video.so nvidia_drv_video.so
Scotty-Trees commented 1 year ago

Thanks for the super fast reply, appreciate your quick help! All good to go.