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PvtVenom

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Registered: 2009-03-31

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Keep nvidia drivers + utils up to date?

Hey there archers, me being a new arch user im use to just downloading the nvidia .run file and installing it on ubuntu/opensuse but since im loving this distro i want to no if there is a way to keep the nvidia drivers up to date becuz i hear that there is memory leak fixes in 180.44 that i would like to check out since i run Arch64. This includes the lib32-nvidia-utils and nvidia-utils files along with the driver itself

wonder

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Re: Keep nvidia drivers + utils up to date?

nvidia 180.44 is in testing but is compiled for kernel 2.6.29 and there is lib32-nvidia-utils-testing in aur

Last edited by wonder (2009-04-03 21:51:39)

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Registered: 2004-11-07

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Re: Keep nvidia drivers + utils up to date?

Hey there archers, me being a new arch user im use to just downloading the nvidia .run file and installing it on ubuntu/opensuse but since im loving this distro i want to no if there is a way to keep the nvidia drivers up to date becuz i hear that there is memory leak fixes in 180.44 that i would like to check out since i run Arch64. This includes the lib32-nvidia-utils and nvidia-utils files along with the driver itself

Grab the PKGBUILD for 180.44 from testing, and build it.

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clmates

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From: A Coruña - España

Registered: 2009-04-25

Posts: 79

Re: Keep nvidia drivers + utils up to date?

Hi I'm new to arch, and to the formus. This is my first post.

I have just installed a few days ago Arch 64 on an HP dv6931eu laptop.

I have a GeoForce 7200 GO and have installed x and the nvidia drivers with pacman  and all worked fine.

But from my previous linux distro experience I know that the 180.44 nvidia drivers had a lot of problems. the last stable release is 180.51 and this version fixes a lot of bugs.

I have installed it with the binary drivers from nvidia website and it worked fine, but I would like to know if there is any method to use the PKGBUILD information from a version, to build in the arch way a version downloaded from nvidia?

Many Thanks and sorry if the question is not propper to this forum.

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lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,019

Re: Keep nvidia drivers + utils up to date?

Use ABS to bulid 180.51.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ABS