From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2144A1384B4 for ; Sat, 7 Nov 2015 09:18:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 423BF21C045; Sat, 7 Nov 2015 09:17:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0655021C00C for ; Sat, 7 Nov 2015 09:17:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (yooden.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 315721CF7D9 for ; Sat, 7 Nov 2015 09:17:55 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 09:17:54 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] problem which makes gnome unusable partially solved Message-ID: <20151107091754.57831f61@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <18081.1446884633@ccs.covici.com> References: <2040.1446839143@ccs.covici.com> <18081.1446884633@ccs.covici.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.13.0-41-gd390fa (GTK+ 2.24.28; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Sig_/_sXViCCBbfyz9y_E0iiJADU"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 7fff7133-9c0b-42e3-8353-f5799ff3f152 X-Archives-Hash: 884a39bc5461710412caa4ac08d5f901 --Sig_/_sXViCCBbfyz9y_E0iiJADU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. --=20 Neil Bothwick He's so cool, he could get frostbite from masturbating. --Sig_/_sXViCCBbfyz9y_E0iiJADU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlY9wcIACgkQum4al0N1GQOvWwCgy4ApHrANx5mdnfIpLw1wUjqQ rCcAn0m420H4MP9bpKCZEdgYWRjJA42W =CBSy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/_sXViCCBbfyz9y_E0iiJADU--