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DeeCodeUh

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From: Michigan, USA

Registered: 2007-11-27

Posts: 176

[Solved]NVidia Drivers

I run ArchLinux x86_64 and Wine. In order to run Wine games I have to have lib32-Nvidia-Utils installed.
I run the beta Nvidia Drivers, and my 64bit Nvidia driver version isn't matching up with my lib32 Nvidia drivers and that's giving me problems.
I've searched for a lib32-nvidia-utils 173.14.05 package but I couldn't find one.
Then I looked in the official 32bit testing repository and found Nvidia-utils 173.14.05 (32 bit version)
Could I just rename this 32 bit Nvidia-Utils package to Lib32-Nvidia-Utils and install it, and have everything work just fine?
Thanks in advance, Coda.

Also, the reason I run beta Nvidia drivers is because my card is relatively new and I need these beta drivers for my card to work well.

Last edited by DeeCodeUh (2008-05-30 03:00:57)

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: [Solved]NVidia Drivers

Grab the lib32-nvidia-utils package using ABS. Rename pkgver to 173.14.05. Change "extra" to "testing" in the 'source' line. Comment out the md5sums line and run makepkg. If all goes well you'll have the correct lib32 package using official Arch binaries.

DeeCodeUh

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From: Michigan, USA

Registered: 2007-11-27

Posts: 176

Re: [Solved]NVidia Drivers

Thanks for your help.
What I did was make my own package out of the 32bit Nvidia-Utils package off of the official repositories, and all works well.

SleepyFloyd

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Registered: 2008-06-11

Posts: 91

Re: [Solved]NVidia Drivers

I can't find the nvidia-utils in the testing branch. Am I blind or is ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/testing/os/i686/ the wrong place?