gentoo nvidia ebuilds?

Bill Davidson harley7
Sat May 14 10:37:26 PDT 2005


On 13:33 Fri 13 May     , 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.  :(

echo "media-video/nvidia-kernel ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords

The /etc/portage directory might not be there, so create that first. 

Bill


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