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nightmorph 07/07/31 21:07:35 |
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Modified: nvidia-guide.xml |
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Log: |
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removed stuff about legacy-drivers and nvidia-glx, as cardoe has kicked the first out of portage and the second has been gone more than a year |
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Revision Changes Path |
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1.42 xml/htdocs/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml |
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file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml?rev=1.42&view=markup |
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plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml?rev=1.42&content-type=text/plain |
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diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml?r1=1.41&r2=1.42 |
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Index: nvidia-guide.xml |
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=================================================================== |
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RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml,v |
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retrieving revision 1.41 |
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retrieving revision 1.42 |
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diff -u -r1.41 -r1.42 |
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--- nvidia-guide.xml 22 Jul 2007 07:32:10 -0000 1.41 |
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+++ nvidia-guide.xml 31 Jul 2007 21:07:35 -0000 1.42 |
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<?xml version='1.0' encoding="UTF-8"?> |
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-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml,v 1.41 2007/07/22 07:32:10 nightmorph Exp $ --> |
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+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml,v 1.42 2007/07/31 21:07:35 nightmorph Exp $ --> |
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<!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd"> |
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<guide link="/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml"> |
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<!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 --> |
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<license/> |
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-<version>1.32</version> |
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-<date>2007-07-22</date> |
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+<version>1.33</version> |
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+<date>2007-07-31</date> |
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<chapter> |
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<title>Introduction</title> |
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</p> |
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<p> |
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-Currently, there are two driver packages in the tree, though this will be |
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-reduced to just one package in the near future. The first, |
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-<c>nvidia-drivers</c>, contains the latest drivers from nVidia with support for |
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-<e>all</e> cards, with several versions available depending on how old your |
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-card is. It uses an eclass to detect what kind of card you're running so that it |
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-installs the proper version. The second package, <c>nvidia-legacy-drivers</c>, |
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-supports older cards. It is deprecated in favor of the all-inclusive |
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-<c>nvidia-drivers</c> package, which contains the same driver version(s). <b>Do |
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-not install <c>nvidia-legacy-drivers</c></b>; it's only kept in the tree to give |
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-its current users time to switch over to the new package. You should only use |
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-<c>nvidia-drivers</c>, as explained in the next chapter. |
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+The <c>nvidia-drivers</c> package contains the latest drivers from nVidia with |
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+support for <e>all</e> cards, with several versions available depending on how |
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+old your card is. It uses an eclass to detect what kind of card you're running |
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+so that it installs the proper version. |
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</p> |
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-<note> |
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-Previously, Gentoo provided separate ebuilds for the nVidia kernel module |
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-(<c>nvidia-kernel</c>) and the X11 GLX libraries (<c>nvidia-glx</c>). These |
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-ebuilds have since been removed from the Portage tree in favor of |
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-<c>nvidia-drivers</c>. If you use <c>nvidia-kernel</c> and <c>nvidia-glx</c>, |
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-then you should migrate to the newer packages. |
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-</note> |
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</body> |
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</section> |
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</chapter> |
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<uri>http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/100.14.11/README/appendix-a.html</uri>. |
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</p> |
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-<impo> |
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-The <c>nvidia-legacy-drivers</c> package is deprecated and should not be |
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-installed on a fresh system. Although it is a 71xx driver, the corresponding |
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-71xx driver version found in <c>nvidia-drivers</c> should be used instead. |
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-</impo> |
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</body> |
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</section> |
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</chapter> |
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and change graphical settings without restarting the X server and is available |
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through Portage as <c>media-video/nvidia-settings</c>. As mentioned earlier, it |
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will be pulled in automatically if you install |
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-<c>>=media-video/nvidia-drivers-100.14.09</c> with the <c>gtk</c> USE flag set |
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+<c>>=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-100.14.09</c> with the <c>gtk</c> USE flag set |
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in <path>/etc/make.conf</path> or in <path>/etc/portage/package.use</path>. |
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</p> |
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