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2 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
4 <maintainer type="person">
5 <email>jer@gentoo.org</email>
8 Nvidia provides different branches of its drivers for different batches of its
9 hardware. When maintaining these ebuilds or other ebuilds depending on them,
10 you will need to keep in mind that the major versions represent these different
13 You can use http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx to figure out which branch
14 best matches your hardware.
17 <flag name="X">Install the X.org driver, OpenGL libraries, XvMC libraries, and VDPAU libraries</flag>
18 <flag name="compat">Install non-GLVND libGL for backwards compatibility</flag>
19 <flag name="driver">Install the kernel driver module</flag>
20 <flag name="gtk3">Install nvidia-settings with support for GTK+ 3</flag>
21 <flag name="kms">Enable support for kernel mode setting (KMS)</flag>
22 <flag name="libglvnd">Use <pkg>media-libs/libglvnd</pkg> for dispatch</flag>
23 <flag name="tools">Install additional tools such as nvidia-settings</flag>
24 <flag name="uvm">Install the Unified Memory kernel module (nvidia-uvm) for sharing memory between CPU and GPU in CUDA programs</flag>