[arch-general] Proprietary nvidia driver for kernel-ARCH and kernel-rt

[Ralf Mardorf]

Von: arch-general-bounces at archlinux.org im Auftrag von Thomas Bächler
Gesendet: Fr 1/6/2012 10:25
> Apparently, the nvidia-all PKGBUILD does it wrong. I don't know why it
> exists - you can install nvidia from [extra] and create a package for
> nvidia-rt. At least then you know the PKGBUILD does something that
> actually works.

Sorry for HTML, at the moment I'm not booted to Arch.

I'm using the nvidia package again. Btw. I forgot to add a link to the rt's extramodules, but since there already was an issue for the regular kernel, I suspect it won't fix anything.

How do I create a package for nvidia-rt?

Should I build a dummy-package and install the module by a k option?

I suspect the AUR's nvidia-rt will conflict with the package nvidia?!

spinymouse11.2 at suse11-2:/media/archlinux/usr/src/nvidia-all> sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-290.10-no-compat32.run -A

-k, --kernel-name=KERNEL-NAME
      Build and install the NVIDIA kernel module for the
      non-running kernel specified by KERNEL-NAME (KERNEL-NAME
      should be the output of `uname -r` when the target kernel
      is actually running).  This option implies
      '--no-precompiled-interface'.  If the options
      '--kernel-install-path' and '--kernel-source-path' are not
      given, then they will be inferred from KERNEL-NAME; eg:
      '/lib/modules/KERNEL-NAME/kernel/drivers/video/' and
      '/lib/modules/KERNEL-NAME/build/', respectively.

-K, --kernel-module-only
      Install a kernel module only, and do not uninstall the
      existing driver.  This is intended to be used to install
      kernel modules for additional kernels (in cases where you
      might boot between several different kernels).  To use this
      option, you must already have a driver installed, and the
      version of the installed driver must match the version of
      this kernel module.

Ciao!

Ralf