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 1NMpyW-00056u-S1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:39:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2417DE073C; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:39:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 023ADE073C for ; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:39:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A68CC67C1E for ; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:39:08 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.062 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.062 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.463, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id B1YaYmlRo97F for ; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:39:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F353A67905 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:39:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NMpxv-0008En-Uq for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:38:55 +0100 Received: from adsl-69-234-211-201.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.211.201]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:38:55 +0100 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-211-201.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:38:55 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Problem with old nvidia-drivers-71.86.11 (depending x11-base/xorg-server vanished form portage-tree) Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:38:33 -0800 Message-ID: References: <87skb5nqau.fsf@newsguy.com> <4B2EF117.7020403@gmail.com> <200912210842.43174.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4B2FA6D9.90903@gmx.ch> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-211-201.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20091221 Thunderbird/3.1a1pre In-Reply-To: <4B2FA6D9.90903@gmx.ch> Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 1075b823-7584-4fe7-b551-ecbfc65130ac X-Archives-Hash: 0a2e2dde09a7fb0564f8f691f5bbc820 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 d= ays 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" [installe= d]) 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.