From: darren kirby <bulliver@badcomputer.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Non-portage nVidia driver install.
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:02:39 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200803171702.39224.bulliver@badcomputer.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080317225803.5a16dabb@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk>
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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2008-03-17 22:40 [gentoo-user] Non-portage nVidia driver install darren kirby
2008-03-17 22:58 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-03-17 23:02 ` darren kirby [this message]
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