system/nvidia-driver: Updated for version 450.66.

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

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/system/nvidia-driver/README b/system/nvidia-driver/README
index a72b5a904731..a3897e2aa22d 100644
--- a/system/nvidia-driver/README
+++ b/system/nvidia-driver/README
@@ -1,32 +1,33 @@
 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.
+X-server. This package does not include the kernel-module - it is
+part of the nvidia-kernel package at SlackBuilds.org.
 
 NOTE: 64-bit x86_64 support ONLY for Slackware64. For x86 32-bit
 support, use nvidia-legacy390-{driver,kernel}
 
-Installing the 32-bit compatibility libraries is available: if desired,
-do:
-  COMPAT32="yes" ./nvidia-driver.SlackBuild
+Installing the 32-bit compatibility libraries is available:
+if desired, do: COMPAT32="yes" ./nvidia-driver.SlackBuild
   
-If you plan to test this buildscript on current (15.0 EXPERIMENTAL), to
-avoid stomping on the installed libglvnd, do:
+If you plan to test this buildscript on current (15.0 EXPERIMENTAL),
+to avoid stomping on the installed libglvnd, do:
   CURRENT="yes" ./nvidia-driver.SlackBuild
 
 This script now gives the option of installing the nvidia-persitenced
 daemon.  For details, see README.nvidia-persitenced.
 
-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.
+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 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: (This is required if you plan on running
+/etc/rc.d/rc.local: (This is REQUIRED if you plan on using
 nvidia-persistenced)
 
     # Create missing nvidia device nodes after reboot
-    /usr/bin/nvidia-modprobe -c 0 -u
+    if [ -x /usr/bin/nvidia-modprobe ]; then
+      /usr/bin/nvidia-modprobe -c 0 -u
+    fi
 
 Notes:
 1.  You still need to blacklist the open source nouveau driver. This is
@@ -37,8 +38,10 @@ Notes:
     prompt to remove the existing driver (it is not necessary to remove
     the kernel module).
 
-3.  On 14.2 ONLY, if you want to revert back to the open source drivers,
-    run 'nvidia-switch --remove' to restore the original libGL.la and
-    then 'removepkg nvidia-driver' "should" work in most cases. If not,
-    just go into /usr/lib64 (as root of course) and rename libGL.la-xorg
-    to libGL.la.  (THIS STEP IS NO LONGER NECESSARY ON CURRENT.)
+3.  As of version 450.xx, Nvidia no longer includes libGL.la in their
+    distribution package.  On 14.2 ONLY, if you want to revert back to
+    the open source drivers, run 'nvidia-switch --remove' to restore
+    the original libGL.la and then 'removepkg nvidia-driver' "should"
+    work in most cases. If not, just go into /usr/lib{,64} (as root of
+    course) and rename libGL.la-xorg to libGL.la.
+    (THIS STEP IS NO LONGER NECESSARY ON CURRENT.)