This is the proprietary binary video driver for legacy cards (Geforce 4 Backwards) from NVidia for the X.Org X-server. This package does not include the kernel-module - it is a part of the nvidia-kernel package at SlackBuilds.org. Since this nvidia-driver conflicts with some files of xorg, it's a bit complex to install/uninstall the driver. However, installation of the nvidia-driver package itself backs up the conflicting files and puts the nvidia-specific files into place. Heinz Wiesinger, the author of the build script, has written a script called nvidia-switch, which can be used to switch between the stock xorg driver and the nvidia driver, but it will not edit xorg.conf for you; you have to do that manually. The nvidia-switch script is installed to /usr/sbin. Usage of nvidia-switch: nvidia-switch --xorg <--> switch to the stock xorg files nvidia-switch --nvidia <--> switch to the proprietary nvidia files nvidia-switch --cleanup <--> switch to the stock xorg file and remove all symlinks created by nvidia-switch No special steps are necessary when updating nvidia-driver from a previous package. If you update to a newer xorg, you do not have to reinstall nvidia-driver either. Just run "nvidia-switch --nvidia" in that case. Before uninstalling this package, it is important that you execute 'nvidia-switch --cleanup', which will switch back to the stock xorg files and remove all links created by nvidia-switch before. If you forget to do this, you'll have to do the switch manually, or xorg won't work on next startup. Here are the affected files: /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 /usr/include/GL/{gl.h glx.h glxext.h glext.h} /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/{libGLcore.so libGLcore.la libglx.so libglx.la} This also requires the nvidia-legacy96-kernel package from SlackBuilds.org.