Re: [arch-general] Proprietary nvidia driver for different kernels

On Mon, 2012-09-17 at 19:02 +0100, Leonidas Spyropoulos wrote:

On 17 Sep 2012 18:46, "Ralf Mardorf" wrote:

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I don't play computer games.

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In any case it's nice to see that a opensource alternative to the closed nividia driver is available and working better all the time!

Unfortunately we only can use it until 21 December 2012 ;D.

Unfortunately I have to use nvidia drivers for CUDA programming..

I might get a specific card just for the CUDA stuff and still load the nouveau for xorg. I don't think its possible with just one GPU, is it? Switching from nvidia to nouveau using the scripts in the wiki for now.

I don't know. Btw. I was switching between nv and nvidia for several distros using a very primitive script: $ cat /etc/rc.d/69switch_xorg.conf #! /bin/sh # /etc/rcS.d/Switch_xorg_conf rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf case $(uname -r) in *rt*) cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.nv /etc/X11/xorg.conf ;; *) cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.nvidia /etc/X11/xorg.conf ;; esac At the moment "nv" is for "nouveau". I didn't know those scrips: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA#Switching_between_nvidia_and_nou... If I should use those scripts, I guess I would replace pacman -S, by pacman -U to install always the versions I know as being stable for my needs. Perhaps I only need nouveau, have no time to test it now, I'll watch The Simpsons at the moment ... commercial break finished ... Regards, Ralf Regards, Ralf