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diff --git a/system/nvidia-driver/README b/system/nvidia-driver/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..416ed5aed6 --- /dev/null +++ b/system/nvidia-driver/README @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +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. + +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. + +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 +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. + +Usage of nvidia-switch: + nvidia-switch --xorg <--> switch to the stock xorg files + nvidia-switch --nvidia <--> switch to the proprietary nvidia files + +Before uninstalling this package, it is important that you execute +'nvidia-switch --xorg', which will switch back to the stock xorg files. +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. |