[Slackbuilds-users] Suggestion for nvidia-driver page

Nick Blizzard nickblizzard1776 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 3 12:22:55 UTC 2013


as a note to the note, a newer driver was released that also supports the
3.10 kernel used in -current:

ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/319.49/

(Yea, I know, 319 < 325... but it really is a newer driver and is working
well with -current)


On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 6:54 AM, Greg' Ar Tourter <artourter at gmail.com>wrote:

> This has already been discussed and is fixed in the ready tree. we are
> just waiting for the next release now.
>
> As a side note to this, the current version of the non legacy package does
> not work on current as the kernel is not supported. upgrading to 325.15
> solves that problem.
>
> Cheers
>
> Greg
> .
>
>
> On 3 September 2013 11:26, Matteo Paoluzzi <duwath at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Using sbopkg for nvidia-driver installation in my new Slackware64, I
>> found out that it failed extracting some missing archives. Those
>> archives are listed in nvidia-driver's slackbuild page, but only under
>> x86 architecture, thus preventing sbopkg from downloading them.
>>
>> This is not only a sbopkg issue, because those archives are needed by
>> the slackbuild also on the x86_64 architecture, not only on x86, and
>> looking at the page as is at moment, it seems that those archives are
>> not needed under X86_64, which is wrong.
>>
>> My suggestion is to list the .tar.bz2 archives ALSO under "Source
>> Download (64bit)" section.
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