[gentoo-user] Non-portage nVidia driver install.

[gentoo-user] Non-portage nVidia driver install.

[darren kirby]

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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Re: [gentoo-user] Non-portage nVidia driver install.

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:40:11 -0600, darren kirby wrote:

> 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.

According to http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213116 you can copy
nvidia-drivers-169.12.ebuild to nvidia-drivers-171.06.ebuild in your
overlay and it will install the new drivers.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Non-portage nVidia driver install.

[darren kirby]

quoth the Neil Bothwick:
> On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:40:11 -0600, darren kirby wrote:
> > 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.
>
> According to http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213116 you can copy
> nvidia-drivers-169.12.ebuild to nvidia-drivers-171.06.ebuild in your
> overlay and it will install the new drivers.

Thanks Neil.

That's my bad, I didn't even think to search bugzilla for an updated ebuild, 
or use an overlay. Urrr......

-d
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