From 93844c3157de93a25d7660434cc5df0e73957d7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Edward W. Koenig" Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2019 09:00:36 +0700 Subject: system/nvidia-driver: Updated for version 440.44. Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo --- system/nvidia-driver/README | 17 +++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'system/nvidia-driver/README') diff --git a/system/nvidia-driver/README b/system/nvidia-driver/README index cbfb71ee50..27a2d6c793 100644 --- a/system/nvidia-driver/README +++ b/system/nvidia-driver/README @@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ use nvidia-legacy390-{driver,kernel} Installing the 32-bit compatibility libraries is available: if desired, do: COMPAT32="yes" ./nvidia-driver.SlackBuild -If you plan to test this buildscript on current (15.0), to avoid stomping -on the installed libglvnd, do: +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 Several useful utilities are included: nvidia-xsettings, nvidia-smi, and @@ -23,3 +23,16 @@ you might need to include the following line in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local: /usr/bin/nvidia-modprobe -c 0 -u ------------->8--------------- +Notes: +1. You still need to blacklist the opensource nouveau driver. This is + easily done by installing xf86-video-nouveau-blacklist-noarch-1.txz + in extra/xf86-video-nouveau-blacklist on the distibution DVD. +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, + 'removepkg nvidia-driver' "should" work in most cases. If not, simply + reinstall the orginal Mesa and xorg-server packages. +4. With the deprecation of nvidia-switch, 'upgradepkg nvidia-driver' + "should" work in most cases. If not, follow #3 above and then install + the new package. -- cgit v1.2.3