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

[Oon-Ee Ng]

On Jan 7, 2012 12:02 AM, "Thomas Bächler" <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
>
> 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).
>
>

I'll try and accommodate both in nvidia-beta-all by next week actually, it
doesn't seem too hard