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diff --git a/system/nvidia-driver/README b/system/nvidia-driver/README
index 6baeb9d554..14391b2c3e 100644
--- a/system/nvidia-driver/README
+++ b/system/nvidia-driver/README
@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@ Installing the 32-bit compatibility libraries is available: if desired, do:
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 details and usage. Two optional utilities, nvidia-modprobe and
+nvidia-persistenced, can be installed with:
+ OPTAPPS="yes" ./nvidia-driver.SlackBuild
Since this nvidia-driver conflicts with some files of xorg, it's a bit
complex to install/uninstall the driver. However, installation of the
@@ -17,7 +19,8 @@ nvidia-specific files into place.
Included is a script called nvidia-switch, which is used to switch from the
xorg driver to 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. NOTE: nvidia-switch is not supported in a COMPAT32 environment.
+/usr/sbin. NOTE: Although nvidia-switch is aware of a COMPAT32 environment,
+its use therein is not supported.
Usage of nvidia-switch:
nvidia-switch --install <--> install the nvidia files and save the
@@ -32,9 +35,6 @@ Before uninstalling or upgrading this package, it is important that you execute
and remove all links created by nvidia-switch during installation. 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/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/{libglx.so libglx.la}
-or, for Slackware64,
- /usr/lib64/libGL.so.1.2
- /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/{libglx.so libglx.la}
+ /usr/lib[64]/libGL.so.1.2
+ /usr/lib[64]/xorg/modules/extensions/{libglx.so libglx.la}
Simply remove the dead nvidia symlinks and rename the saved '-xorg' appended files.