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| author | Edward Koenig <kingbeowulf@gmail.com> | 2013-06-02 01:55:14 -0500 |
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| committer | Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org> | 2013-06-04 00:11:23 -0500 |
| commit | aa006fb2dcf97bab35bad9b1234f616c696dc71a (patch) | |
| tree | 98f298808967311455c69a47240527a473012598 /system/nvidia-driver/README | |
| parent | 76741d75a7076c93ba41dcaaf26e0bd87834324f (diff) | |
| download | slackbuilds-aa006fb2dcf97bab35bad9b1234f616c696dc71a.tar.gz | |
system/nvidia-driver: Updated for version 319.17.
Signed-off-by: Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'system/nvidia-driver/README')
| -rw-r--r-- | system/nvidia-driver/README | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/system/nvidia-driver/README b/system/nvidia-driver/README index 6baeb9d554..14391b2c3e 100644 --- a/system/nvidia-driver/README +++ b/system/nvidia-driver/README @@ -7,7 +7,9 @@ Installing the 32-bit compatibility libraries is available: if desired, do: Several useful utilities are included: nvidia-xsettings, nvidia-smi, and nvidia-settings. Please refer to the Nvidia documentation and man pages -for details and usage. +for details and usage. Two optional utilities, nvidia-modprobe and +nvidia-persistenced, can be installed with: + OPTAPPS="yes" ./nvidia-driver.SlackBuild Since this nvidia-driver conflicts with some files of xorg, it's a bit complex to install/uninstall the driver. However, installation of the @@ -17,7 +19,8 @@ nvidia-specific files into place. Included is a script called nvidia-switch, which is used to switch from the xorg driver to the nvidia driver, but it will not edit xorg.conf for you; you have to do that manually. The nvidia-switch script is installed to -/usr/sbin. NOTE: nvidia-switch is not supported in a COMPAT32 environment. +/usr/sbin. NOTE: Although nvidia-switch is aware of a COMPAT32 environment, +its use therein is not supported. Usage of nvidia-switch: nvidia-switch --install <--> install the nvidia files and save the @@ -32,9 +35,6 @@ Before uninstalling or upgrading this package, it is important that you execute and remove all links created by nvidia-switch during installation. If you forget to do this, you'll have to do the switch manually, or xorg won't work on next startup. Here are the affected files: - /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 - /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/{libglx.so libglx.la} -or, for Slackware64, - /usr/lib64/libGL.so.1.2 - /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/{libglx.so libglx.la} + /usr/lib[64]/libGL.so.1.2 + /usr/lib[64]/xorg/modules/extensions/{libglx.so libglx.la} Simply remove the dead nvidia symlinks and rename the saved '-xorg' appended files. |