Nvidia driver install with pacman available

hi
you can find a nvidia package in tpowa repo
ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/tur/tpowa
now it is possible to add /update remove nvidia drivers with pacman
at the moment it works with kernel 2.6.5
not with the scsi kernel
i'll try to fix that
please test it and give feedback
thanks

hm if you update your kernel to 2.6.5-3
you have to update to gcc 3.4 too
the nvidia drivers have to be built with the same compiler that was used for the kernel
2.6.5-3 was built with gcc 3.4
--> nvidia driver has to be built with gcc 3.4
upgrade both packages and do
reboot for the new kernel and then X will not start due of failing nvidia module, login as root and run:
pacman -S nvidia
now you can start X and it should work :-)
so it worked for me

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# That this file is used by any Bourne-shell derivative to setup the
# environment for login shells.
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umask 022
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# but it can make tab-completion easier when they aren't in the
# user's PATH to pollute the executable namespace.
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# avoided.
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