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authorEdward W. Koenig <kingbeowulf@gmail.com>2015-02-09 19:26:26 +0700
committerWilly Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>2015-02-09 19:26:26 +0700
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+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: if desired, do:
+ 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.
+
+For CUDA/OpenCL to work after reboot, 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-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.
+
+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.
+
+Usage of nvidia-switch:
+ nvidia-switch --install <--> install the nvidia files and save the
+ stock xorg files.
+ 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.
+
+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[64]/libGL.so.1.2
+ /usr/lib[64]/xorg/modules/extensions/{libglx.so libglx.la}
+Simply remove the dead nvidia symlinks and rename the saved '-xorg' appended files.