From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NN1UB-0000WP-Gw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:56:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 33304E0994; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:56:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B119DE0994 for ; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:56:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 22 Dec 2009 09:56:52 -0000 Received: from mail.abi-informatic.ch (EHLO [192.168.16.155]) [62.2.243.36] by mail.gmx.net (mp063) with SMTP; 22 Dec 2009 10:56:52 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1867879 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18+xgEFE/w+qnyde5NHbD+Gz0b7sNKOogTbsNymu2 nfS9yG4Nhktf7L Message-ID: <4B3097E3.8060308@gmx.ch> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:56:51 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Christian_K=F6nitzer?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Thunderbird/3.0 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problem with old nvidia-drivers-71.86.11 (depending x11-base/xorg-server vanished form portage-tree) References: <87skb5nqau.fsf@newsguy.com> <4B2EF117.7020403@gmail.com> <200912210842.43174.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4B2FA6D9.90903@gmx.ch> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.57 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 301382b9-3c5b-4c5e-b024-8be2fe7c2dab X-Archives-Hash: 235e1a55b43e5cf7969976812b20aae9 After reading what overlays are I decided to unmerge my nvidia drivers=20 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 K=F6nitzer wrote: >> Hi list, >> >> I'm using a quite old NVIDIA card aqnd it worked well but since a few=20 >> 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 "> (dependency required by "x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-71.86.11"=20 >> [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 differenc= e > between the nvidia and nv drivers when I still used the old TNT card. >