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From: darren kirby <bulliver@badcomputer.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Non-portage nVidia driver install.
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:40:11 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200803171640.12055.bulliver@badcomputer.org> (raw)

Hi all,

I just built myself a brand new AMD64 system with an EVGA Geforce 9600GT. This 
vid card requires a newer version of nvidia drivers (171.06) than is 
available from portage, so I will have to install it manually.

I am wondering if there are any gotchas I should keep in mind before 
installing it, as in, do I need to unmerge the current unsupported drivers? 
Should I use package provided? Will 'eselect opengl set nvidia' still work?

Shall I just shut up and install it ;)

Thanks for replies,
-d
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             reply	other threads:[~2008-03-17 22:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-17 22:40 darren kirby [this message]
2008-03-17 22:58 ` [gentoo-user] Non-portage nVidia driver install Neil Bothwick
2008-03-17 23:02   ` darren kirby

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