Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problem with old nvidia-drivers-71.86.11 (depending x11-base/xorg-server vanished form portage-tree)

["Christian Könitzer" <chkab@gmx.ch>]

After reading what overlays are I decided to unmerge my nvidia drivers 
and use the nv driver instead.
Thanks for all your answers! :-)

Am 21.12.2009 22:38, schrieb walt:
> On 12/21/2009 08:48 AM, Christian Könitzer wrote:
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I'm using a quite old NVIDIA card aqnd it worked well but since a few 
>> days it seams to be deprecated. After a eix --sync I got this:
>> emerge -DuN world
>> Calculating dependencies... done!
>>
>> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "<x11-base/xorg-server-1.4.99".
>> (dependency required by "x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-71.86.11" 
>> [installed])
>
> Hm.  I used that driver until very recently, when my brother-in-law
> upgraded his video card and gave the old one for free.  His timing
> is not usually that good.  :o)
>
> You can still use the nv driver, if that's adequate for your needs.
>
> If the nv driver isn't good enough, then I'd say it's time upgrade your
> video card after all these years.  I never really noticed any difference
> between the nvidia and nv drivers when I still used the old TNT card.
>