[arch-general] Nvidia?? (About to do pacman -Syu but:)

[Vic Demuzere]

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.
>
> http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/nvidia/
>

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

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