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@@ -21,8 +21,7 @@ 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: (This is REQUIRED if you plan on using
-nvidia-persistenced)
+/etc/rc.d/rc.local (This is REQUIRED for nvidia-persistenced to work):
# Create missing nvidia device nodes after reboot
if [ -x /usr/bin/nvidia-modprobe ]; then
@@ -39,9 +38,25 @@ Notes:
the kernel module).
3. As of version 450.xx, Nvidia no longer includes libGL.la in their
- distribution package. On 14.2 ONLY, if you want to revert back to
+ distribution package. On 14.2 ONLY, nvidia-switch saves these
+ files to /var/log/nvidia/{32,64}:
+
+ libGL{,ESv1_CM,ESv2}.la
+ libGL.so.1.2.0
+ libGLESv1_cm.so.1.1.0
+ libGLESv2.so.2.0.0
+
+ It then modifies the .la files in /usr/lib{,64} to point to the
+ nvidia versions of these libraries. 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, just go into /usr/lib{,64} (as root of
- course) and rename libGL.la-xorg to libGL.la.
+ the original mesa librarieslibGL.la and then
+ 'removepkg nvidia-driver' "should" work in most cases. If you
+ forget to run nvidia-switch --remove, just copy the original files
+ saved in /var/log/nvidia/{32,64} back to /usr/lib{,64}.
(THIS STEP IS NO LONGER NECESSARY ON CURRENT.)
+
+4. (IMPORTANT ON 14.2) When it comes time to remove this package with
+ 'removepkg' (or just about any other package for that matter), you
+ MUST run '/sbin/ldconfig' to restore any symlinks. This is due to
+ an omission in removepkg that failed to run ldconfig after removing
+ the package. (This has been corrected in current/15.0.)