This is a general discussion for the Blender snap maintained by me through TPaw. Any problems can be opened on the TPaw Snaps issue tracker on Github.
Normal Blender (not the software renderer version) works in classic confinement.
can’t use nvidia proprietary driver, GPU is not available.
ubuntu 17.04
sudo strace -e trace=file snap run blender-tpaw :
stat("/dev/nvidia0", {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0666, st_rdev=makedev(195, 0), …}) = 0
— SIGCHLD {si_signo=SIGCHLD, si_code=CLD_EXITED, si_pid=13293, si_uid=0, si_status=0, si_utime=0, si_stime=0} —
stat("/dev/nvidia1", 0x7fff3aa592c0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/dev/nvidiactl", {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0666, st_rdev=makedev(195, 255), …}) = 0
— SIGCHLD {si_signo=SIGCHLD, si_code=CLD_EXITED, si_pid=13297, si_uid=0, si_status=0, si_utime=0, si_stime=0} —
stat("/dev/nvidia-uvm", {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0666, st_rdev=makedev(242, 0), …}) = 0
— SIGCHLD {si_signo=SIGCHLD, si_code=CLD_EXITED, si_pid=13301, si_uid=0, si_status=0, si_utime=0, si_stime=0} —
stat("/dev/nvidia-modeset", {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0666, st_rdev=makedev(195, 254), …}) = 0
— SIGCHLD {si_signo=SIGCHLD, si_code=CLD_EXITED, si_pid=13305, si_uid=0, si_status=0, si_utime=0, si_stime=0} —
readlinkat(AT_FDCWD, “/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0/drm/card0”, 0x1f1e810, 99) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
The linked GitHub repo’s for this have been removed/hidden and there’s been no updates for over 2 years. It should be removed from the snap store.