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authorB. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com>2016-11-14 14:51:09 -0500
committerWilly Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>2016-11-15 21:41:38 +0700
commit909107ca934ff5496890dee41eabde7842f92dd5 (patch)
treed226537f4778b1750dd5d166494ff6017cbb21b2 /system/nvidia-legacy340-driver
parent333d6e5f891c2a64805cce4b3d87534ded7f9738 (diff)
system/nvidia-legacy340-driver: Fix README.
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--- a/system/nvidia-legacy340-driver/README
+++ b/system/nvidia-legacy340-driver/README
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ 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
+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
@@ -17,29 +17,34 @@ For CUDA/OpenCL to work after reboot, include the following line in your
------------->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
+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
+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,
+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.
+ 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.
-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[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.
+
+Simply remove the dead nvidia symlinks and rename the saved '-xorg'
+appended files.