[gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers for 8600 GT

[gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers for 8600 GT

[Markus Schönhaber]

Hello!

Today I bought a graphics card with Nvidia 8600 GT chipset without
taking into account that there might be no official nvidia drivers
supporting this card yet. There are beta drivers (v. 100.14.03)
available on nzone, though, that should get that card working, but
there's no ebuild for them in portage.
Does an overlay with an ebuild for those drivers exist? If so, where?

Regards
  mks
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Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers for 8600 GT

[Daniel Pielmeier]

> Today I bought a graphics card with Nvidia 8600 GT chipset without
> taking into account that there might be no official nvidia drivers
> supporting this card yet. There are beta drivers (v. 100.14.03)
> available on nzone, though, that should get that card working, but
> there's no ebuild for them in portage.
> Does an overlay with an ebuild for those drivers exist? If so, where?

I don't think that there is an overlay for those drivers.
Take a look at this bugs [1][2] which are dealing with the new drivers.
Maybe they will be added to the tree soon.

You can try to rename the ebuild according to the new version and add it
to your overlay, maybe it just works.

[1]http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=175674
[2]http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=176135
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Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers for 8600 GT

[Markus Schönhaber]

Daniel Pielmeier wrote:

> I don't think that there is an overlay for those drivers.
> Take a look at this bugs [1][2] which are dealing with the new drivers.
> Maybe they will be added to the tree soon.

Thanks for the pointers.

> You can try to rename the ebuild according to the new version and add it
> to your overlay, maybe it just works.

I'll try it.

Regards
  mks
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Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers for 8600 GT

[Aleksandar L. Dimitrov]

On Sun, 13 May 2007 00:30:50 +0200
Markus Schönhaber <gentoo-user@schoenhaber.de> wrote:

> Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
> 
> > I don't think that there is an overlay for those drivers.
> > Take a look at this bugs [1][2] which are dealing with the new
> > drivers. Maybe they will be added to the tree soon.
> 
> Thanks for the pointers.
> 
> > You can try to rename the ebuild according to the new version and
> > add it to your overlay, maybe it just works.
> 
> I'll try it.
> 

I did something rather dirty today. I downloaded the newest Nvidia Beta
Drivers and copied it over to /usr/portage/distfiles under the same
name the in-portage driver had. So while portage thinks the old drivers
are installed - that's not the case :)

It worked flawlessly and the new drivers gave me quite a performance
boost on my GeForce7400 Go! :)

So it might be worth it giving it a try...

Regargs, Aleks

> Regards
>   mks
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Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers for 8600 GT

[Markus Schönhaber]

Markus Schönhaber wrote:

> Daniel Pielmeier wrote:

>> You can try to rename the ebuild according to the new version and add it
>> to your overlay, maybe it just works.
> 
> I'll try it.

A minor change to the ebuild to reflect the different numbering scheme
of the beta driver's package was necessary.
Now the card is working fine.

Regards
  mks
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Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers for 8600 GT

[Markus Schönhaber]

Aleksandar L. Dimitrov wrote:

> I did something rather dirty today. I downloaded the newest Nvidia Beta
> Drivers and copied it over to /usr/portage/distfiles under the same
> name the in-portage driver had. So while portage thinks the old drivers
> are installed - that's not the case :)

Oh yes, dirty ;-)
I assume you did also change the digest information for driver package,
didn't you?

Anyway, I did as Daniel suggested and created a new ebuild for the beta
driver by copying the old one.

Regards
  mks
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Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers for 8600 GT

[Daniel Pielmeier]

>> I did something rather dirty today. I downloaded the newest Nvidia Beta
>> Drivers and copied it over to /usr/portage/distfiles under the same
>> name the in-portage driver had. So while portage thinks the old drivers
>> are installed - that's not the case :)
> 
> Oh yes, dirty ;-)
> I assume you did also change the digest information for driver package,
> didn't you?

The result is the same, but creating an ebuild and putting it an overlay
is a much more cleaner way of doing it.

Regards,

Daniel
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Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers for 8600 GT

[Markus Schönhaber]

Daniel Pielmeier wrote:

> The result is the same, but creating an ebuild and putting it an overlay
> is a much more cleaner way of doing it.

ACK. I did it that way. I didn't mention in my previous post that I did
put the new ebuild into an overlay, though.

Regards
  mks
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