From: Aron Griffis <agriffis@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] new nvidia ebuild
Date: Sun Oct 7 17:15:02 2001 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011007181525.C20363@yde.flatmonk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011006091814.C6132@cvs.gentoo.org>
Hi Daniel,
Daniel Robbins wrote: [Sat Oct 06 2001, 10:18:14AM EST]
> This ebuild contains the latest accelerated nvidia drivers and OpenGL
> 1.2 implementation, as well as a devfs patch. To use them, exit X,
> emerge this package, and then configure /etc/X11/XF86Config
> appropriately (basically just change the "Device" "driver" setting to
> "nvidia"). Then load the NVdriver kernel module, start X and you
> should have very fast, rock-solid accelerated video under XFree86.
I don't have an nvidia card, but this ebuild brings up an interesting
question. I have attempted to emerge glibc a couple times, only to have
it bomb out at the end because I was currently running X. Couldn't
these ebuilds test for X before actually starting unpack/compile?
Aron
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-07 23:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-06 9:19 [gentoo-dev] new nvidia ebuild Daniel Robbins
2001-10-06 19:27 ` Tod M. Neidt
2001-10-07 17:15 ` Aron Griffis [this message]
2001-10-07 17:19 ` Morgan Christiansson
2001-10-08 3:45 ` Djamil ESSAISSI
2001-10-08 8:41 ` Dan Armak
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