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 1RTI41-0005sR-Lv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:00:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9A69621C02B; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:00:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vx0-f181.google.com (mail-vx0-f181.google.com [209.85.220.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE2B4E0023 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:59:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vcbfl17 with SMTP id fl17so2561047vcb.40 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:59:45 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=mCokkPQXKVFjb0xQeMAJ7/S4l5/Kv9sW6QW7BzLs/oU=; b=rF7Bi5howeIdzb/GTR98C0ZjX2mqyxOkgTM80LcWiehynLaZRvaJWZBM8N3XgCKbxt tWBisiHd81XFCKJ9n2WoHCE9JOGo5/3e5l1pwKBgHqGKD+x4Af9/UIwrUAMIJV10Oy2T NCKnOq54scEIaOZp15eMaAlyqCSZHbQii57h8= 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 Received: by 10.182.217.73 with SMTP id ow9mr8697983obc.11.1322074785313; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:59:45 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.182.113.10 with HTTP; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:59:45 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20111123180901.GC2819@solfire> References: <20111123172123.GA2819@solfire> <20111123180901.GC2819@solfire> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:59:45 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Before locking out myself... From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: ea9f1e00-c21c-49c0-844f-f3c60974b96e X-Archives-Hash: b64d55ef17e91243f6c0d61a5d23afe0 On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 10:09 AM, wrote: > Mark Knecht [11-11-23 19:00]: >> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 9:21 AM, =C2=A0 wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > Before I lock out myself from my Linux system... >> > >> > Current state: VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GF108 [Ge= Force GT 430] (rev a1) >> > which I want to exchange with a MSI 560 Ti made also by msi. >> > >> > I am using the nvidia-drivers... >> > >> > Is it right, that is simple to pull out the old card and insert the >> > new one or do I badly forget anything ? >> > >> > Thank you very much in advance for your help! >> > >> > Best regards, >> > mcc >> >> I'm assuming the MSI 560 is a new Nvidia based VGA, correct? >> >> It's almost certainly OK to just switch cards. However if you want to >> be safe then check the Nvidia site for the right nvidia package to >> handle 560-based cards and make sure you have it emerged before you >> switch. >> >> HTH, >> Mark >> > > I checked the docs of the nvidia drivers on the systems which > mentioned the nvidia 560 ti but msi isnt mentioned. Since drivers > access the GPU and not the cooling system (and my old card was also > made by msi and worked ok) I think this part should be ok. > But since I cannot remember other side effects, which I dont know, > I thought its better to ask other gurus... ;) > > What do you think ? > > Best regards, > mcc According to the nvidia site it seems you want the nvidia-drivers-290.1 package, but I'm not seeing that specific version in portage right now. Most likely it's coming soon, and I would guess the 290.06 version that I'm running here for a 465GTX card will work fine for you. 290.1 was only released 2 days ago. http://www.geforce.com/Drivers/Results/39816 mark@c2stable ~ $ eix -I nvidia-drivers [I] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers Available versions: 96.43.19!s 96.43.20!s 173.14.30!s 173.14.31!s 270.41.19!s 275.09.07!s [M](~)275.28!s (~)285.05.09!s 285.05.09-r1!s (~)290.06!s (~)290.06!s[1] {acpi custom-cflags gtk kernel_linux multilib} Installed versions: 290.06!s[1](05:33:02 AM 11/15/2011)(acpi gtk kernel_linux multilib -custom-cflags) Homepage: http://www.nvidia.com/ Description: NVIDIA X11 driver and GLX libraries [1] "init6" /var/lib/layman/init6 mark@c2stable ~ $ If it's 560 ti based card I doubt MSI did much to change the Nvidia reference design if it risked not using the standard nvidia driver. HTH, Mark