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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
+X-server. This package does not include the kernel module - it is a part
of the nvidia-kernel package at SlackBuilds.org.
Installing the 32-bit compatibility libraries is available: if desired, do:
COMPAT32="yes" ./nvidia-driver.SlackBuild
+
+This script installs the new GLVND versions of the libraries by default. If
+this causes compatibility issues, you can switch back to the legacy
+non-GLVND versions with:
+ GLVND="no" ./nvidia-driver.SlackBuild
-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.
+Several useful utilities are included: nvidia-xconfig, nvidia-smi,
+nvidia-settings, etc. Please refer to the Nvidia documentation and man
+pages for details and usage.
For CUDA/OpenCL to work after reboot, you might need to include the
following line in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
@@ -16,34 +21,23 @@ following line in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
/usr/bin/nvidia-modprobe -c 0 -u
------------->8---------------
-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.
-
-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: 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
- stock xorg files.
- nvidia-switch --remove <--> remove the nvidia files and symlinks and
- restore the stock xorg files.
-
-You do NOT have to run nvidia-switch after installing the package.
-
-Before uninstalling or upgrading this package, it is important that
-you execute 'nvidia-switch --remove', which will switch back to the
-stock xorg files and remove all links created by nvidia-switch during
-installation. If you forget to do this, you might have to do the switch
-manually, since 'nvidia-switch --install' may fail, resulting in xorg
-not working. Here are the affected files:
-
- /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.
+Due to the current complexity of the driver, it is currently no longer possible to
+automate restoring the open source files. Here are the affected files:
+
+ /usr/lib[64]/libGL.la
+ /usr/lib[64]/libGL.so.1
+ /usr/lib[64]/libGL.so.1.0.0
+ /usr/lib[64]/libGLESv1_CM.la
+ /usr/lib[64]/libGLESv1_CM.so
+ /usr/lib[64]/libGLESv1_CM.so.1
+ /usr/lib[64]/libGLESv2.so
+ /usr/lib[64]/libGLESv2.so.2
+ /usr/lib[64]/libEGL.so
+ /usr/lib[64]/libEGL.so.1
+ /usr/lib[64]/xorg/modules/libwfb.so
+ /usr/lib[64]/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
+ /usr/lib[64]/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.la
+
+The simplest way, for now, to get all the files and symlinks into the right
+place is to use pkgtools or slackpkg to reinstall the original mesa and
+xorg-server packages *after* uninstalling this nvidia package.