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

[Thomas Bächler]

Am 06.01.2012 16:57, schrieb Ralf Madorf:
> On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 16:47 +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote:
>> Am 06.01.2012 16:32, schrieb Ralf Madorf:
>>> [     8.889] Current Operating System: Linux archlinux 3.0-rt #1 SMP
>>> PREEMPT RT Mon Dec 26 13:03:51 CET 2011 x86_64
>>
>> The -rt kernel package still uses the old versioning scheme, where the
>> patchlevel is removed from the version string. This means that the new
>> nvidia PKGBUILD won't work and you need to start from an old version.
>>
>> Basically, make it look like it was before this change:
>> https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/nvidia&id=1b7954a332c32de0ef49a82806fbb18544b26949
> 
> Thank you :)
> 
> I'll try it tonight or tomorrow. OTOH I guess I can use 285.05.09-1
> ( http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=12132 ) with $ uname -r
> 3.1.7-1-ARCH instead of doing this for 290.10?!

No, you can't, you need a version that matches your nvidia-utils package.

These module PKGBUILDs are a mess since I changed the external kernel
module handling in 3.1 - some AUR kernels use the new scheme, some use
the old one (hence the problems with nvidia-all).


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