* [gentoo-user] Non-portage nVidia driver install.
@ 2008-03-17 22:40 darren kirby
2008-03-17 22:58 ` Neil Bothwick
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From: darren kirby @ 2008-03-17 22:40 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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.
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
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From: Neil Bothwick @ 2008-03-17 22:58 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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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.
2008-03-17 22:58 ` Neil Bothwick
@ 2008-03-17 23:02 ` darren kirby
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From: darren kirby @ 2008-03-17 23:02 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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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