[Slackbuilds-users] nvidia-driver, nvidia-kernel

[Martin Pagnan]

Thanks. Good point. But, now that I have been warned, what are these 
garbage files that I must have on my system? Do you remember? Thanks.

On 21/06/2011 11:12 PM, King Beowulf wrote:
> Martin,
> The Sbo slackbuild scripts builds a standard slackware package. I used
> the nvidia*.run as well for ages. But it does dump files all over the
> place that the pkgtool doesn't know about. What happens when you
> update mesa, xorg etc? With the packages, you can revert, update,
> install a bit easier without recompling (assuming constant kernel).
>
> Its a matter of personal preference, ultimately.
>
> Or, its the Slackware way, or the highway!!
>
> -Ed
>
>
> On 6/21/11, Martin Pagnan<mpagnan at acanac.net>  wrote:
>> Hi, I am a bit confused by this thread. I installed the nvidia drivers
>> with the Linux installer available from the nvidia site over a year ago.
>> As I recall, one just has to unpack the tar ball and run the script. It
>> finds your card and kernel, asks for confirmation and proceeds to
>> complete the installation for 64 bit or 32 bit - you chose. I have
>> experienced no problems since installing it. So what has happened. Does
>> nvidia no longer provide this utility? Why is a slackbuild needed?
>>
>> On 21/06/2011 10:34 PM, King Beowulf wrote:
>>> Well just slap me for the noob I am. I really need to pay more
>>> attention. I'm about a 900 miles away from my box and I forgot to open
>>> ssh before I left.  It shouldn't be "" but " ". Anyway, a new nvidia
>>> version is out and I will rejigger the script to get rid of
>>> "no-compat32" download with a simpler selection scheme - ie yes/no
>>> using the full nvidia package. Its just a few libs after all.
>>>
>>> Anyway, thanks to all for pointing out the error my ways.
>>>
>>> -Ed
>>>
>>>
>>> On 6/21/11, Greg' Ar Tourter<artourter at gmail.com>   wrote:
>>>> Thanks for providing these packages.
>>>>
>>>> However there is a problem when trying to compile the 64bit driver
>>>> with the 32bit compatibility on both -driver and -kernel, even with
>>>> the latest diff.
>>>>
>>>> The code in the script goes:
>>>>
>>>> SRCSUFFIX=${SRCSUFFIX:--no-compat32}
>>>> with the added note to set SRCSUFFIX="" in order to have the 32bit layer.
>>>>
>>>> This doesn't actually work since setting $SRCSUFFIX to "" means that
>>>> the code above will consider the variable empty and therefore set it
>>>> to -no-compat32.
>>>>
>>>> A possible fix is included in the attached diff (applies to
>>>> nvidia-driver but the same thing can be done for -kernel).
>>>>
>>>> hope this helps
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>>
>>>> ArTourter
>>>>
>>>> On 22 June 2011 02:13, King Beowulf<kingbeowulf at gmail.com>   wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Robby Workman<rworkman at slackbuilds.org>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:31:38 -0700
>>>>>> King Beowulf<kingbeowulf at gmail.com>   wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Roberto brought to my attention that for both nvidia-driver and
>>>>>>> nvidia-kernel scripts the default should be
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> SRCSUFFIX="nocompat32"
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please do.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -RW
>>>>>>
>>>>> nvidia-kernel.diff attached.  This should clear up some confusion.
>>>>> Hopefully...
>>>>>
>>>>> I sent in a spelling error diff for nvidia-driver yesterday.  Also,
>>>>> 275.09.07 is out with new GPU support and KDE4 fixes.  If this is of
>>>>> interest to the community, I will hop right on it when I get home from
>>>>> this
>>>>> business trip.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> You! What PLANET is this!
>>>>>       -- McCoy, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate 3134.0
>>>>>
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