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| author | Hilton Chain <hako@ultrarare.space> | 2024-03-09 20:40:44 +0800 |
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| committer | John Kehayias <john.kehayias@protonmail.com> | 2024-04-24 20:06:56 -0400 |
| commit | 39e64b2b7706885b8261bfbefa8dd0521072d8c7 (patch) | |
| tree | 58249cd511d0f1b51d0c1941057648b22f2fac09 /nongnu | |
| parent | 260855dc5e36a418193a286392655f50a4be1ad5 (diff) | |
nongnu: nvda: Update synopsis and description.
* nongnu/packages/nvidia.scm (nvda)[synopsis,description]: Update.
Signed-off-by: John Kehayias <john.kehayias@protonmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'nongnu')
| -rw-r--r-- | nongnu/packages/nvidia.scm | 15 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/nongnu/packages/nvidia.scm b/nongnu/packages/nvidia.scm index 54ce330..29d0321 100644 --- a/nongnu/packages/nvidia.scm +++ b/nongnu/packages/nvidia.scm @@ -740,10 +740,19 @@ configuration, creating application profiles, gpu monitoring and more.") (search-path-specification (variable "XDG_DATA_DIRS") (files '("share"))))) + (synopsis "Nonguix's user-facing NVIDIA driver package") (description - "These are the libraries of the evil NVIDIA driver, packaged in such a -way that you can use the transformation option @code{--with-graft=mesa=nvda} -to use the NVIDIA driver with a package that requires mesa.") + "This package provides a drop-in replacement for @code{mesa} and is +intended to be installed by @code{nvidia-service-type}. + +To actually use the NVIDIA card, replacement must be applied for individual +packages, this can be done either by rewriting inputs with +@code{--with-input=mesa=nvda} or grafting with @code{--with-graft=mesa=nvda}. +For a programmatical way, the procedure @code{replace-mesa} can be used. + +Additionally, if the NVIDIA card is not used for displaying, environment +variables @code{__GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia} and +@code{__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1} may be set.") (native-inputs '()) (propagated-inputs (append |