Am 09.03.2010 23:23, schrieb Carlos Mennens: > Is it a bad idea to install nVidia display drivers manually by > downloading them from nvidia.com and installing it by hand...or should > I use 'Pacman'? I read that I could mess up my system by manually > installing packages and should always use Pacman. > > Thoughts / Suggestions? > > -Carlos The nvidia installer is evil: It will replace files that belong to other packages (like xorg-server or libgl) with its own versions. On deinstallation, it will move files back I think. Combine that with upgrades of Arch packages and you get a chaos where nobody knows where your files come from. If you want a different or more recent version of the nvidia drivers, or a kernel module for a different kernel, modify the nvidia-utils and nvidia PKGBUILDs.
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