gentoo nvidia ebuilds?

[Net Llama!]

On 05/14/2005 02:37 AM, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 13:33 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
>> On Thu, 12 May 2005, Collins Richey wrote:
>> > On 5/12/05, Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
>> > > Do any of you gentoo fans know if there are any gentoo ebuilds of the
>> > > nvidia driver beyond 1.0-6629?  All i'm finding is 6629 which isn't
>> > > helping me, and trying to install the 'official' nvidia package is blowing
>> > > up with conflicting library warnings.
>> > >
>> >
>> > You may need to look at the ~x86 ebuilds. Search /usr/portage for the
>> > nvidia ebuilds. Gentoo isn't very agressive in marking the nvidia
>> > builds stable.
>> 
>> I grepped /usr/portage for nvidia and got nothing.
>> 
>> >
>> > OTOH, my gentoo system (no emerge sync for at least 3 months) has
>> > nothing beyond 6629-r5.
>> 
>> That's the only version i can find too.  :(
> 
> Perhaps, given your new employ, you would make a great Gentoo ebuild
> maintainer for nvidia! I think the current nvidia ebuild is sporadic.

I hate to burst your bubble, but i doubt that's going to happen (or at 
least not by me).  I only am dealing with gentoo because there's a bunch 
of potential bugs from people using gentoo + the nvidia driver.  They're 
mostly "i'm using 1.0-7174 with $NVIDIA_CARD and X locks up".  I'm just 
trying to get them reproduced so the sw engr group can attempt to fix them.

> 
> Still, I think it is a very easy ebuild to copy locally (portage allows
> local ebuilds that syncing leave alone). Then you could emerge what ever
> you want. The only change  (beyond bumping the version) to the ebuild is
> when nvidia or the rest of Gentoo change something related to install. I
> think it takes about 93 seconds to clone an existing ebuild abd bump the
> version number.

Tell you what.  If you can point me to step-by-step instructions on how 
to create an ebuild, i'll see what i can do to create an 'unofficial' 
nvidia driver ebuild.

> 
> I look forward to keeping up with newer nvidia drivers!

Well interestingly, the manager of the linux driver team uses gentoo, 
although i've not had a chance to ask him what he does to get the driver 
installed.  Granted, he's likely using a pre-release driver much of the 
time for testing purposes.

As for my original problem, i ended up just extracting the driver with 
"--extract-only" and then just running 'make install' and it installed 
properly.  gentoo seems to do some really weird things with some of the 
opengl librariries that confuse the nvidia installer into thinking that 
the wrong version is installed.

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