How to Install the proprietary NVIDIA driver

[zAchAry]

Concerning to this post http://salixos.org/forum/viewtopic.php? ... 035#p31035 by laprjns.

I suggest to provide a package with a script that would automate these directions at http://salixos.org/wiki/index.php/How_t ... DIA_driver in a similar manner to what Debian (install_bcm43xx_firmware.sh) or pwatk (SLKBUILD style) did with http://salixos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=7901#p7901

[Pai Mei]

A sugestion: update the wiki.
Since Slackware 13.37, XORG dropped HAL and uses UDEV to get information about input devices (see: http://blog.tpa.me.uk/2011/03/29/slackw ... -xorg-hal/) but the Nvidia-installer DOESN'T "knows" this... (see:http://blog.tpa.me.uk/2010/04/09/config ... slackware/). Every time you install/upgrades the drivers, it generates a xorg.con based on HAL settings - the praticcal effect of this is the X-server crashes every time when in a Graphical Ambient (XFCE,LXDE...). The solution is comment the sections InputDevice from "Mouse" and "Keyboard" on xorg.conf - this doesn't generate any issues, and stops the hangs/locks.
Regards,
Pai Mei.

[gapan]

A sugestion: update the wiki.

Well, go on then! It's a wiki after all.

[laprjns]

A . Every time you install/upgrades the drivers, it generates a xorg.con based on HAL settings - the praticcal effect of this is the X-server crashes every time when in a Graphical Ambient (XFCE,LXDE...).

I just installed the 319.32 driver using nVidia installer and yes it did install an xorg.conf file, but I'm not getting and X-server crashes.

Also did you know about the installers "--update" option? With this option you can run any installer version that you may already have and it checks the nVidia website for the latest stable driver for your card, downloads it and runs the installer script.
So for me I did the following:

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sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.53-pkg2.run --update

and it downloaded and installed the 319.32 driver. http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-disp ... river.html