From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JbOM0-0002AF-FJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:02:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A1BF0E0414; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:02:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71723E0414 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:02:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D995A66DAC for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:02:49 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -1.27 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.27 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=1.329, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Wo8RxU2OHRO5 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:02:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pd2mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (idcmail-mo1so.shaw.ca [24.71.223.10]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E696966DA7 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:02:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pd3mr3so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr3so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.179]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0JXW00F8EDCG4UE0@l-daemon> for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:02:40 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml7so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.151]) by pd3mr3so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0JXW004JCDCG0R10@pd3mr3so.prod.shaw.ca> for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:02:41 -0600 (MDT) Received: from virgo.badcomputer.org ([68.148.98.184]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0JXW00DLBDCFOB30@l-daemon> for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:02:40 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:02:39 -0600 From: darren kirby Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Non-portage nVidia driver install. In-reply-to: <20080317225803.5a16dabb@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <200803171702.39224.bulliver@badcomputer.org> Organization: Badcomputer Org. Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-6 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline References: <200803171640.12055.bulliver@badcomputer.org> <20080317225803.5a16dabb@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk> User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 X-Archives-Salt: a61e9309-4a4b-42ec-9ed3-e17382df914e X-Archives-Hash: 3adee7d7cf875cd0c797461206a00007 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 -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list