From: tuxic@posteo.de
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-driver installation problems...
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 11:40:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200410094059.ndxsudwf4ws7nphe@solfire> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200410102950.1ca1c2db@digimed.co.uk>
On 04/10 10:29, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Apr 2020 11:25:16 +0200, tuxic@posteo.de wrote:
>
> > If I remove nvidia-drivers and install the drivers of the same
> > version as provided by nvidia itsself, everything works find.
> >
> > To examine this a little further I have put nividia-drivers
> > into /etc/portage/profile/package.provided:
> >
> > >=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-340.108
> >
> > which will silently be ignored and nvidia-drivers will
> > be emerged...which will lead to a whole lotta mess.
>
> package.provided requires a specific version, try
>
> x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-340.108
>
> If you want to stop portage trying to replace this with a later version,
> add ">x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-340.108", note > not >=, to package.mask.
>
>
> --
> Neil Bothwick
>
> .sig a .sog of sixpence.
/etc/portage/profile/package.provided is still being ignored.
Current content:
>x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-340.108
Emerge starts to install the newest driver available.
--
Meino Cramer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-10 9:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-10 9:25 [gentoo-user] Nvidia-driver installation problems tuxic
2020-04-10 9:29 ` Neil Bothwick
2020-04-10 9:40 ` tuxic [this message]
2020-04-10 10:11 ` Neil Bothwick
2020-04-10 10:21 ` tuxic
2020-04-10 11:48 ` Neil Bothwick
2020-04-10 12:23 ` tuxic
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