From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Non-portage nVidia driver install.
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:58:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080317225803.5a16dabb@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200803171640.12055.bulliver@badcomputer.org>
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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.
--
Neil Bothwick
"Bother," said Pooh, as he fell off the bridge with his stick.
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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 [this message]
2008-03-17 23:02 ` darren kirby
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