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webmonarch

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Registered: 2009-11-13

Posts: 7

Feedback on Proposal: maintain nvidia 319.xx drivers in AUR

Hey all,

I'd like to get your input on a proposal.  I work mostly on a laptop with a new-ish nvidia graphics card. 

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107GLM [Quadro K1000M] (rev a1)

Recently, I've been having a lot of issues with the nvidia proprietary drivers.  Likely related to kernel and nvidia bugs.  One really strange bug is it breaks VMWare.  I am sure others have experienced issues if you use similar hardware.

Personally, I remember having the best experience with linux 3.9 and nvidia 319.32...but I don't like the idea of staying on a relatively old kernel.

Do you think maintaining the nvidia-319.32 package for newer kernels can improve a user's experience?  It seems other distros (Ubuntu) are sticking to 319.  Any potential issues? 

I am curious if people in the community would find this useful...or do they handle this manually?

cheers,
eric

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Feedback on Proposal: maintain nvidia 319.xx drivers in AUR

I see you uploaded https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nvidia-319-ck/

dodo3773

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Registered: 2011-03-17

Posts: 820

Re: Feedback on Proposal: maintain nvidia 319.xx drivers in AUR

I think it could be helpful to keep older nvidia drivers for some users (it is for you). As far as feedback goes I think you should provide another package for a matching version of nvidia-utils probably. I noticed in your Dependencies for the package you have "nvidia-utils=319.32" but I do not see this version of this package in the repos or aur.

webmonarch

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Registered: 2009-11-13

Posts: 7

Re: Feedback on Proposal: maintain nvidia 319.xx drivers in AUR

Appreciate it, and I agree.  I have the older versions of the nvidia-utils + nvidia-libgl in my pacman cache, but I'll recreate those in AUR under the nvidia-319 name. 

It'll be a few days, but things are getting started @ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nvidia-319-ck.  I'll get a github repo working too.

dodo3773

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Registered: 2011-03-17

Posts: 820

Re: Feedback on Proposal: maintain nvidia 319.xx drivers in AUR

Appreciate it, and I agree.  I have the older versions of the nvidia-utils + nvidia-libgl in my pacman cache, but I'll recreate those in AUR under the nvidia-319 name. 

It'll be a few days, but things are getting started @ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nvidia-319-ck.  I'll get a github repo working too.

If you are going to do nvidia-libgl you may want to also do lib32-nvidia-libgl, not sure but you may need lib32-nvidia-utils too. I am unsure if you are on a 64 bit system or not.

webmonarch

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Registered: 2009-11-13

Posts: 7

Re: Feedback on Proposal: maintain nvidia 319.xx drivers in AUR

Thanks all.  I gave it a go, I threw everything up on AUR and Github.

I'm using these on my machine and so far so good.

**AUR Packages:**

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nvidia-319-ck/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nvidia-319-utils/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nvidia-319-libgl/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lib3 … 319-utils/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lib3 … 319-libgl/

**Github**

https://github.com/webmonarch/nvidia-319-ck

Feedback and pull-requests appreciated.