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authorHeinz Wiesinger <pprkut@liwjatan.at>2010-05-13 00:41:07 +0200
committerRobby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org>2010-05-13 00:41:07 +0200
commitd43ed837763e40fb47bd62cdfbec71a20ea82680 (patch)
tree50ef1809461039fb7fad91aa591c310a903a54bf /system/nvidia-driver/README
parenta317d2ef48033955273dd47601b64ca1dab4ef04 (diff)
system/nvidia-driver: Updated for version 190.42
Diffstat (limited to 'system/nvidia-driver/README')
-rw-r--r--system/nvidia-driver/README21
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/system/nvidia-driver/README b/system/nvidia-driver/README
index 3fd2ec81d446..213218fe4710 100644
--- a/system/nvidia-driver/README
+++ b/system/nvidia-driver/README
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ nvidia-driver package itself backs up the conflicting files and puts the
nvidia-specific files into place.
Heinz Wiesinger, the author of the build script, has written a script called
-nvidia-switch, which can be used to switch between the stock xorg driver and
+nvidia-switch, which is used to switch between the stock xorg driver and
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.
@@ -18,6 +18,11 @@ Usage of nvidia-switch:
nvidia-switch --cleanup <--> switch to the stock xorg file and remove all
symlinks created by nvidia-switch
+You do NOT have to run nvidia-switch after installing or upgrading the
+package. ONLY if you want to explicitely switch to the xorg files,
+afterwards switching back to nvidia files or before uninstalling the
+package.
+
No special steps are necessary when updating nvidia-driver from a previous
package. If you update to a newer xorg, you do not have to reinstall
nvidia-driver either. Just run "nvidia-switch --nvidia" in that case.
@@ -29,16 +34,6 @@ 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/include/GL/{gl.h glx.h glxext.h glext.h}
- /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/{libGLcore.so libGLcore.la libglx.so libglx.la}
-
-This also requires the nvidia-kernel package from SlackBuilds.org.
-
-ATTENTION: There is a serious bug in this version regarding Fujitsu notebooks.
-(See details in nvidia's announcement for 180.51 here:
-
- http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=1985816)
+ /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/{libglx.so libglx.la}
-If you are an owner of such a system, consider upgrading to a newer version of
-nvidia-driver/kernel (by changing the version number in the respective
-*.SlackBuild file). An update is not yet provided as newer versions of
-nvidia-driver proved to be more unstable than the current one.
+This also requires the nvidia-kernel and libvdpau package from SlackBuilds.org.