From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] problem which makes gnome unusable partially solved
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 09:17:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151107091754.57831f61@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18081.1446884633@ccs.covici.com>
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On Sat, 07 Nov 2015 03:23:53 -0500, covici@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> this led me to think that maybe nvidia-settings had something to do with
> it and I discovered I had an old version not sure how that got to stay
> and I tried to install the latest one, which had two effects -- it
> downgraded nvidia-drivers to 3.55.11 and tried to install
> nvidia-settings, but that would not install because there is a file
> conflict with -- guess what -- nvidia drivers! So I unmerged the old
> one and for now it seems to work, but I don't know what will happen in
> the future this way. Very strange!
Looking at the ebuilds, it appears that nvidia-settings is installed by
the nvdidia-drivers package, controlled by the tools USE flag. Try
setting that flag and unmerging nvidia-settings.
--
Neil Bothwick
He's so cool, he could get frostbite from masturbating.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-07 9:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-06 19:45 [gentoo-user] problem which makes gnome unusable covici
2015-11-06 21:46 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2015-11-06 22:26 ` covici
2015-11-07 1:54 ` walt
2015-11-07 2:07 ` covici
2015-11-07 21:47 ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-11-07 8:23 ` [gentoo-user] problem which makes gnome unusable partially solved covici
2015-11-07 9:17 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2015-11-07 13:44 ` covici
2015-11-07 15:32 ` Neil Bothwick
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