I installed Slackware 13.0 x86_64 about a week ago. My video card is a GeForce 9500 GT. I went to the NVIDIA site and downloaded the appropriate 64-bit drivers. I went to slackbuilds.org, got the SlackBuilds for nvidia-kernel and nvidia-driver, modified the SlackBuilds accordingly, exited X and ran them. I ran nvidia-xconfig, restarted X, and everything works fantastically.
Fantastic!
Now, I had multilib support enabled before I did any of this NVIDIA stuff. Alien Bob's guide says the following:
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Originally Posted by Alien Bob
After installing the ”-compat32” packages, you may have to re-install your binary Nvidia or Ati video X.Org drivers. These driver packages contain both 64bit and 32bit libraries to be maximally useful on a 64bit multilib OS. If you installed the driver files for both architectures, the ”mesa-compat32” package will overwrite some of the 32bit library files.
On the other hand, if you originally only installed the 64bit driver libraries for your Nvidia/Ati card, it is recommended after installation of the multilib packages, to re-install the binary driver package. This time, choose to install the 32bit driver files as well.
The graphical 32bit applications that you are going to run on your multilib installation will require these 32bit driver libraries. Crashes are likely to occur if you fail to install the correct files.
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Okay. I only installed the 64-bit driver. I just want to verify that what I should do now is something like:
1. Go to the NVIDIA site and get the 32-bit drivers.
2. Get the SlackBuilds for nvidia-driver
and nvidia-kernel. Modify them appropriately.
3. Run " . /etc/profile.d/32dev.sh"
4. ???
This seems incorrect to me. I just need some 32bit libraries, right? Do I already have them? I need to run nvidia-xconfig again?