[arch-general] Nvidia?? (About to do pacman -Syu but:)
In preparation for a pacman -Syu I peeked at the "main page" and read:
The nvidia-173xx and nvidia-96xx driver packages have been removed from our repositories as they are incompatible with newer xorg servers. This can only be fixed by an upstream update, which has not happened yet.
For most video cards, the best alternative should be xf86-video-nouveau
Since I know for a fact that my integrated Nvidia GeForce 6150 LE is very
incompatible with the nouveau driver I'm suddenly concerned...
according to pacman -Q nvidia I got:
nvidia 270.41.19-1
Should I worry about it? That is should I find out how to prevent pacman
from messing with the video driver, or does the "270.41.19-1" mean the
above will have no effect on my nvidia driver?
Thanks
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On 07/10/2011 07:22 PM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
according to pacman -Q nvidia I got: nvidia 270.41.19-1
Should I worry about it? That is should I find out how to prevent pacman from messing with the video driver, or does the "270.41.19-1" mean the above will have no effect on my nvidia driver?
You're using the nvidia package, and that is still in the repository. http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/nvidia/ -- vic.demuzere.be :: vic@demuzere.be :: PGP: 0x6690CF94 My software never contains bugs, it just develops random features.
On 07/10/2011 07:25 PM, Vic Demuzere wrote:
On 07/10/2011 07:22 PM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
according to pacman -Q nvidia I got: nvidia 270.41.19-1
Should I worry about it? That is should I find out how to prevent pacman from messing with the video driver, or does the "270.41.19-1" mean the above will have no effect on my nvidia driver?
You're using the nvidia package, and that is still in the repository.
Maybe I should have explained that more. As you can see on the arch wiki [1], you either use "nvidia" OR "nvidia-173xx and nvidia-96xx". That means that if you're currently using "nvidia", you won't have any problems with updating. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA#Installing -- vic.demuzere.be :: vic@demuzere.be :: PGP: 0x6690CF94 My software never contains bugs, it just develops random features.
It would appear that on Jul 10, Vic Demuzere did say:
Maybe I should have explained that more.
As you can see on the arch wiki [1], you either use "nvidia" OR "nvidia-173xx and nvidia-96xx". That means that if you're currently using "nvidia", you won't have any problems with updating.
THANKS!
now to get around to that pacman -Syu
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