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authorEdward Koenig <kingbeowulf@gmail.com>2012-11-25 21:20:53 -0600
committerdsomero <xgizzmo@slackbuilds.org>2012-12-11 16:20:48 -0500
commit7882afc0adbf67e192cb4e1a096ea7e49f604d04 (patch)
treec0e2264a7f801b101791d4b3e14e5fa33e0cb020 /system/nvidia-driver/README
parent87a8496456aedaf9d0aa34aa6a31efe1639624db (diff)
system/nvidia-driver: Updated for version 310.19.
Signed-off-by: Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org>
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diff --git a/system/nvidia-driver/README b/system/nvidia-driver/README
index b3d86c2d2fbc..6baeb9d554bf 100644
--- a/system/nvidia-driver/README
+++ b/system/nvidia-driver/README
@@ -2,9 +2,12 @@ This is the proprietary binary video driver from NVidia for the X.Org
X-server. This package does not include the kernel-module - it is a
part of the nvidia-kernel package at SlackBuilds.org.
-Installing the 32-bit compatibility libraries is available, so pass
+Installing the 32-bit compatibility libraries is available: if desired, do:
+ COMPAT32="yes" ./nvidia-driver.SlackBuild
-COMPAT32="yes" ./nvidia-driver.SlackBuild
+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.
Since this nvidia-driver conflicts with some files of xorg, it's a bit
complex to install/uninstall the driver. However, installation of the
@@ -31,10 +34,7 @@ to do this, you'll have to do the switch manually, or xorg won't work on next st
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}
-
Simply remove the dead nvidia symlinks and rename the saved '-xorg' appended files.