From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IFywk-0005q7-1w for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:08:02 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6VL7cG4014495; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:07:38 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6VL7bVi014456 for ; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:07:38 GMT Received: from stork.gentoo.org (stork.gentoo.org [64.127.104.133]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C18764ADF for ; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:07:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nightmorph by stork.gentoo.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IFywJ-0006wN-Dv for gentoo-doc-cvs@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:07:35 +0000 To: gentoo-doc-cvs@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-doc-cvs] cvs commit: nvidia-guide.xml Message-Id: From: Josh Saddler Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:07:35 +0000 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-doc-cvs@gentoo.org Reply-to: docs-team@lists.gentoo.org X-Archives-Salt: 072b3210-a187-48fe-b4ca-8482027910eb X-Archives-Hash: 1d39a3bcea6e81e5c311db3ea82bcf0d nightmorph 07/07/31 21:07:35 Modified: nvidia-guide.xml Log: removed stuff about legacy-drivers and nvidia-glx, as cardoe has kicked the first out of portage and the second has been gone more than a year Revision Changes Path 1.42 xml/htdocs/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml?rev=1.42&view=markup plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml?rev=1.42&content-type=text/plain diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml?r1=1.41&r2=1.42 Index: nvidia-guide.xml =================================================================== RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml,v retrieving revision 1.41 retrieving revision 1.42 diff -u -r1.41 -r1.42 --- nvidia-guide.xml 22 Jul 2007 07:32:10 -0000 1.41 +++ nvidia-guide.xml 31 Jul 2007 21:07:35 -0000 1.42 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ - + @@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ -1.32 -2007-07-22 +1.33 +2007-07-31 Introduction @@ -46,27 +46,12 @@

-Currently, there are two driver packages in the tree, though this will be -reduced to just one package in the near future. The first, -nvidia-drivers, contains the latest drivers from nVidia with support for -all cards, with several versions available depending on how old your -card is. It uses an eclass to detect what kind of card you're running so that it -installs the proper version. The second package, nvidia-legacy-drivers, -supports older cards. It is deprecated in favor of the all-inclusive -nvidia-drivers package, which contains the same driver version(s). Do -not install nvidia-legacy-drivers; it's only kept in the tree to give -its current users time to switch over to the new package. You should only use -nvidia-drivers, as explained in the next chapter. +The nvidia-drivers package contains the latest drivers from nVidia with +support for all cards, with several versions available depending on how +old your card is. It uses an eclass to detect what kind of card you're running +so that it installs the proper version.

- -Previously, Gentoo provided separate ebuilds for the nVidia kernel module -(nvidia-kernel) and the X11 GLX libraries (nvidia-glx). These -ebuilds have since been removed from the Portage tree in favor of -nvidia-drivers. If you use nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx, -then you should migrate to the newer packages. - - @@ -109,12 +94,6 @@ http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/100.14.11/README/appendix-a.html.

- -The nvidia-legacy-drivers package is deprecated and should not be -installed on a fresh system. Although it is a 71xx driver, the corresponding -71xx driver version found in nvidia-drivers should be used instead. - - @@ -455,7 +434,7 @@ and change graphical settings without restarting the X server and is available through Portage as media-video/nvidia-settings. As mentioned earlier, it will be pulled in automatically if you install ->=media-video/nvidia-drivers-100.14.09 with the gtk USE flag set +>=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-100.14.09 with the gtk USE flag set in /etc/make.conf or in /etc/portage/package.use.

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