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authorB. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com>2016-11-14 15:18:16 -0500
committerWilly Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>2016-11-15 21:41:38 +0700
commit0327d356fb71f2c88165cc6c6ffbd25f486f5ac8 (patch)
tree589b3cbe8030ea8fb3d74e7460726743340f5624 /system/nvidia-legacy304-driver
parent38c8c2b4ba3a0dd986b8ef02b63b169102144272 (diff)
system/nvidia-legacy304-driver: Fix README.
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diff --git a/system/nvidia-legacy304-driver/README b/system/nvidia-legacy304-driver/README
index 45706495edf4d..0bd79371511af 100644
--- a/system/nvidia-legacy304-driver/README
+++ b/system/nvidia-legacy304-driver/README
@@ -1,31 +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 a part
+of the nvidia-kernel package at SlackBuilds.org.
Since this nvidia-driver conflicts with some files of xorg, it's a bit
-complex to install/uninstall the driver. However, installation of the
-nvidia-driver package itself backs up the conflicting files and puts the
-nvidia-specific files into place.
+complex to install/uninstall the driver. However, installation of the
+nvidia-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.
+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.
Usage of nvidia-switch:
nvidia-switch --install <--> install the nvidia files and save the
- stock xorg files.
+ stock xorg files.
nvidia-switch --remove <--> remove the nvidia files and symlinks and
- restore the stock xorg files.
+ restore the stock xorg files.
-You do NOT have to run nvidia-switch after installing the package.
+You do NOT have to run nvidia-switch after installing the package.
Note: x86_64 COMPAT32 enviroment is not supported.
-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'll have to do the switch manually, or xorg won't work on next startup.
+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'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}
@@ -35,6 +37,7 @@ 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.
+Simply remove the dead nvidia symlinks and rename the saved '-xorg'
+appended files.
-Requires: nvidia-kernel,libvdpau
+Requires: nvidia-kernel,libvdpau