Re: [gentoo-amd64] OpenGL trouble (?)

[Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon@decoulon.ch>]

On Tuesday 21 February 2006 10.50, Jürgen Schinker wrote:
>
> Yeah but a lot user run in this trap...
> and at least it was the only way to get my resolution running
> i use 1920x1200 native...and 3D opengl
> so tell me how do i get rid of all this nvidia-fetch stuff...
>
> and then how to convert to a only Gentoo way
>
> and put a red warning on the howto install nvidia on Gentoo to
> never ever use the Nvidia-scripts

I gave a lot of thinking to this and came up with the following:

a) I removed the nvidia stuff (running the installer with --remove I think, or 
look at the docs). No problem here.
b) emerge would not propose me anything else, but if you unmask nvidia-glx it 
does (THIS should be put in red).
c) there are other things to unmask. I added the following to 
package.keywords:

media-video/nvidia-glx
media-video/nvidia-kernel
app-admin/eselect
=app-admin/eselect-opengl-1.0.3

and then I was able to emerge the last driver.

I don't know if the fact of installing/uninstalling the nvidia stuff broke 
something - does not seem to have so far.

I find the whole dealing with masked packages is badly explained - probably by 
people who know the stuff so well they can't explain it clearly for newbies.

I had no time to look if that cured the problems with the games that crashed - 
I doubt it will - but where the nvidia driver worked the Gentoo version does 
as well.

I don't know if the nvidia how-to I read was outdated, but it never said 
anything about unmaking anything, nor about eselct stuff.

Thierry

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