Re: [Slackbuilds-users] RFC: splitting off nvidia utilities into a separate package

2012-10-28 Thread King Beowulf
On 10/23/2012 10:54 PM, Heinz Wiesinger wrote: AFAIK utilities are pretty much linked to a driver version, so splitting off the utilities would mean having a utilities SlackBuild per driver. I have no idea how many legacy drivers still work on 14.0, but there'd need to be a utilities SlackBuild

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] RFC: splitting off nvidia utilities into a separate package

2012-10-28 Thread Mats Bertil Tegner
On 10/24/2012 03:22 AM, King Beowulf wrote: I'm thinking of splitting off the open source nividia utilities from nvidia-driver.Slackbuild to something like nvidia-utilities.Slackbuild. Effected files: nvidia-installer nvidia-settings nvidia-xconfig This might make it easier to update the

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] RFC: splitting off nvidia utilities into a separate package

2012-10-28 Thread King Beowulf
On 10/28/2012 04:41 AM, Mats Bertil Tegner wrote: Speaking of the nvidia-driver (and nvidia-kernel) packages, These needs to be updated to the latest long lived branch which is 304.60. http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html Mats humor Boy, don't make me come over they and slap you!

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] RFC: splitting off nvidia utilities into a separate package

2012-10-24 Thread Heinz Wiesinger
On Wednesday 24 October 2012 20:55:52 crocket wrote: Yo!!! Use nouveau on slackware 14.0 because it works fine at least with GTX460. works fine is purely subjective. There are lots of reasons not to use nouveau. Apart from that, whether or not to use the nvidia driver was never the