Re: [gentoo-user] Non-portage nVidia driver install.

Group: linux.gentoo.user
From: Neil Bothwick
Date: Monday, March 17, 2008 6:00 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Non-portage nVidia driver install.

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On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:40:11 -0600, darren kirby wrote:

> I just built myself a brand new AMD64 system with an EVGA Geforce
> 9600GT. This vid card requires a newer version of nvidia drivers
> (171.06) than is available from portage, so I will have to install it
> manually.

According to http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D213116 you can copy
nvidia-drivers-169.12.ebuild to nvidia-drivers-171.06.ebuild in your
overlay and it will install the new drivers.

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Neil Bothwick

"Bother," said Pooh, as he fell off the bridge with his stick.

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