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Diffstat (limited to 'system/nvidia-driver/README')
| -rw-r--r-- | system/nvidia-driver/README | 21 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/system/nvidia-driver/README b/system/nvidia-driver/README index 3fd2ec81d4..213218fe47 100644 --- a/system/nvidia-driver/README +++ b/system/nvidia-driver/README @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ nvidia-driver package itself backs up the conflicting files and puts the nvidia-specific files into place. Heinz Wiesinger, the author of the build script, has written a script called -nvidia-switch, which can be used to switch between the stock xorg driver and +nvidia-switch, which is used to switch between the stock xorg driver and 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. @@ -18,6 +18,11 @@ Usage of nvidia-switch: nvidia-switch --cleanup <--> switch to the stock xorg file and remove all symlinks created by nvidia-switch +You do NOT have to run nvidia-switch after installing or upgrading the +package. ONLY if you want to explicitely switch to the xorg files, +afterwards switching back to nvidia files or before uninstalling the +package. + No special steps are necessary when updating nvidia-driver from a previous package. If you update to a newer xorg, you do not have to reinstall nvidia-driver either. Just run "nvidia-switch --nvidia" in that case. @@ -29,16 +34,6 @@ 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/include/GL/{gl.h glx.h glxext.h glext.h} - /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/{libGLcore.so libGLcore.la libglx.so libglx.la} - -This also requires the nvidia-kernel package from SlackBuilds.org. - -ATTENTION: There is a serious bug in this version regarding Fujitsu notebooks. -(See details in nvidia's announcement for 180.51 here: - - http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=1985816) + /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/{libglx.so libglx.la} -If you are an owner of such a system, consider upgrading to a newer version of -nvidia-driver/kernel (by changing the version number in the respective -*.SlackBuild file). An update is not yet provided as newer versions of -nvidia-driver proved to be more unstable than the current one. +This also requires the nvidia-kernel and libvdpau package from SlackBuilds.org. |