system/nvidia-legacy390-driver: added rc.nvidia-persistenced.

Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>

1 files changed, 39 insertions, 32 deletions

diff --git a/system/nvidia-legacy390-driver/README b/system/nvidia-legacy390-driver/README
index e608bf4c96..0fefce671d 100644
--- a/system/nvidia-legacy390-driver/README
+++ b/system/nvidia-legacy390-driver/README
@@ -5,10 +5,16 @@ of the nvidia-legacy390-kernel package at SlackBuilds.org.
 Installing the 32-bit compatibility libraries is available: if desired, do:
   COMPAT32="yes" ./nvidia-legacy390-driver.SlackBuild
 
-GLVND GLX client libraries are now the default. If these cause any
-compatibility issues with older GLX sofware, either upgrade your software
-or try:
-  GLVND="no" ./nvidia-legacy390-driver.SlackBuild
+If you plan to test this buildscript on current (15.0 EXPERIMENTAL), to
+avoid stomping on xorg-serverand  libglvnd, do:
+  CURRENT="yes" ./nvidia-driver.SlackBuild
+
+If you build and install this driver on current WITHOUT using the
+CURRENT="yes" flag, it will corrupt both xorg-server AND libglvnd, so
+after removing the driver both packages will have to be reinstalled.
+
+This script now installs the nvidia-persistenced daemon.  For details see
+README.nvidia-persistenced.
 
 Several useful utilities are included: nvidia-xsettings, nvidia-smi, and
 nvidia-settings.  Please refer to the Nvidia documentation and man pages
@@ -16,44 +22,45 @@ for details and usage.
 
 For CUDA/OpenCL to work after reboot, and for utilites such as nvidia-smi,
 you might need to include the following line in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
--------------8<---------------
-# Create missing nvidia device nodes after reboot
-/usr/bin/nvidia-modprobe -c 0 -u
-------------->8---------------
-
-Since this nvidia-legacy390-driver conflicts with some files of xorg, it's
-a bit complex to install/uninstall the driver.  However, installation of the
-nvidia-legacy390-driver package itself backs up the conflicting files and puts
-the 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: Although nvidia-switch is aware of a
-COMPAT32 environment, its use therein is not supported.
+(this is REQUIRED for nvidia-persistenced to work properly)
+
+    # Create missing nvidia device nodes after reboot
+    /usr/bin/nvidia-modprobe -c 0 -u
+
+Included is a script called nvidia-switch, which is used to switch between
+the xorg and nvidia drivers, but it will not edit xorg.conf for you;
+you have to do that manually.  The nvidia-switch script is installed to
+/usr/sbin.
 
 Usage of nvidia-switch:
-  nvidia-switch --install  <--> install the nvidia files and save the
-                                stock xorg files.
+  nvidia-switch --install  <--> save the stock xorg files and
+                                install the nvidia files and symlinks.
   nvidia-switch --remove   <--> remove the nvidia files and symlinks and
                                 restore the stock xorg files.
 
-You do NOT have to run nvidia-switch after installing the package.
+NOTES:
+Since nvidia-legacy390-driver conflicts with some files of xorg, it's a
+bit complex to install/uninstall the driver.  However, installation of the
+nvidia-legacy390-driver package backs up the conflicting files and puts
+the nvidia-specific files into place by automatically  running
+    nvidia-switch --install
+in doinst.sh.
 
-Before uninstalling or upgrading this package, it is important that
+Before uninstalling or upgrading this package, it is IMPORTANT that
 you execute 'nvidia-switch --remove', which will switch back to the
 stock xorg files and remove all links created by nvidia-switch during
 installation. If you forget to do this, you might have to do the switch
 manually, since 'nvidia-switch --install' may fail, resulting in xorg
-not working. Here are the affected files:
+not working. Here are the affected files (and their packages):
 
-  /usr/lib[64]/libGL.so.1.2
-  /usr/lib[64]/libGL.la
-  /usr/lib[64]/libGLESv1_CM.so.1.0.0
-  /usr/lib[64]/libGLESv2.so.2.0.0
-  /usr/lib[64]/libEGL.so.1.0.0
-  /usr/lib[64]/xorg/modules/libwfb.so
-  /usr/lib[64]/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
+  /usr/lib[64]/libGL.so.1.2 (mesa)
+  /usr/lib[64]/libGL.la (mesa)
+  /usr/lib[64]/libGLESv1_CM.so.1.0.0 (mesa)
+  /usr/lib[64]/libGLESv2.so.2.0.0 (mesa)
+  /usr/lib[64]/libEGL.so.1.0.0 (mesa)
+  /usr/lib[64]/xorg/modules/libwfb.so (xorg-server)
+  /usr/lib[64]/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so (xorg-server)
 
 Simply remove the dead nvidia symlinks and and reinstall the mesa and
-xorg-server packages. See 'nvidia-switch --help'.
+xorg-server packages.  (In current, only xorg-server is affected.)
+