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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] opengl - howto get rid of Nvidia
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 10:58:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200902211058.41399.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tkrat.bfa68dbdbece5b6e@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>

On Samstag 21 Februar 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have switched from a machine with Nvidia (proprietary) graphics driver
> to a machine with onboard radeonhd device.
>
> Now when reemerging xorg-server or trying to eselect opengl
> it always tries to find Nvidia's opengl.
>
> Of course, I have unmerged the nvidia driver.
>
> How can I get rid of the Nvidia heritage?
>
> Many thanks for a hint,
> Helmut.

you probably have some dangling symlinks left. That happens when you unmerge 
first, eselect later. eselect can not deal with dangling symlinks - it fails 
silently. So, check for broken symlinks, remove them, then run eselect again.




  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-21  9:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-21  9:54 [gentoo-user] opengl - howto get rid of Nvidia Helmut Jarausch
2009-02-21  9:58 ` Volker Armin Hemmann [this message]
2009-02-21 10:07   ` Helmut Jarausch
2009-02-21 10:14     ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-02-21 10:10 ` Sebastian Günther
2009-02-21 13:27 ` Pupino
2009-02-21 19:42   ` [gentoo-user] " James
2009-02-21 21:27     ` Roy Wright

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