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Diffstat (limited to 'system/nvidia-driver/README')
| -rw-r--r-- | system/nvidia-driver/README | 19 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/system/nvidia-driver/README b/system/nvidia-driver/README index 4e5f22ceed..e941e818f7 100644 --- a/system/nvidia-driver/README +++ b/system/nvidia-driver/README @@ -12,16 +12,18 @@ 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 installs 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. 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: --------------8<--------------- -# Create missing nvidia device nodes after reboot -/usr/bin/nvidia-modprobe -c 0 -u -------------->8--------------- + + # Create missing nvidia device nodes after reboot + /usr/bin/nvidia-modprobe -c 0 -u Notes: 1. You still need to blacklist the opensource nouveau driver. This is @@ -30,7 +32,8 @@ Notes: 2. If nvidia-driver is already installed, there may be extraneous "unable to find installed file..." messages on the console and log. This is benign and due to the nvidia installer not being very smart. -3. 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, simply - reinstall the orginal Mesa and xorg-server packages. +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, + simply reinstall the orginal Mesa package. (THIS STEP IS NO LONGER + NECESSARY ON CURRENT.) |