Re: [gentoo-user] re: xfce4-sensors-plugin pulling in nvidia-settings

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On 22/08/2013 19:37, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
> When setting up the X server and the  proprietary ndivia driver, as
> described here (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/NVidia/nvidia-drivers), I
> emerged nvidia-settings, as suggested in the wiki article, The drivers
> can be installed with the *gtk* USE flag set in /etc/portage/make.conf.
> This will install *media-video/nvidia-settings*, a handy graphical tool
> for monitoring and configuring several aspects of your nVidia card.
> 
> The version of the nvidia driver and nvidia settings I emerged is:
> box0=; equery list '*'|grep nvidia-driver
> x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-319.32
> 
> I then emerged xfce4 as well as the xfce4-sensors-plugin (box0=; equery
> list '*'|grep xfce4-sensors-plugin
> xfce-extra/xfce4-sensors-plugin-1.2.5), which pulled in nvidia-settings
> of an older version:
> box0=; equery list '*'|grep nvidia-settings
> media-video/nvidia-settings-304.60
> 
> I had a look at the xfce4-sensors-plugin ebuild, and found
> nvidia-settings listed as a dependency, with no version specified.
> 
> RDEPEND=">=x11-libs/gtk+-2.14:2
>     >=xfce-base/libxfce4ui-4.8
>     >=xfce-base/xfce4-panel-4.8
>     hddtemp? ( app-admin/hddtemp net-analyzer/gnu-netcat )
>     libnotify? ( >=x11-libs/libnotify-0.7 )
>     lm_sensors? ( >=sys-apps/lm_sensors-3.1.0 )
>     video_cards_nvidia? ( media-video/nvidia-settings )"
> 
> I now seem to have both versions of nvidia-settings installed.
> 
> How do I fix that please?



You don't have two versions of nvidia-settings.
You have one version of nvidia-drivers and one version of
nvidia-settings, and they don't have the same version number.

This is normal, nvidia-settings often runs behind nvidia-drivers. They
do not seem to get updated at the same time (unless driver changes
require it be done of course)


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