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From: Jeff Grant <jgrant@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia 1.0-8774 drivers not in portage
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 21:12:15
Message-Id: 44F4ABD8.3000207@voicesignal.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] nvidia 1.0-8774 drivers not in portage by Daevid Vincent
1 # emerge -s nvidia
2
3 * x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
4 Latest version available: 1.0.8774
5 Latest version installed: 1.0.8774
6 Size of files: 31,714 kB
7 Homepage: http://www.nvidia.com/
8 Description: NVIDIA X11 driver and GLX libraries
9 License: NVIDIA
10
11 -Jeff
12
13 Daevid Vincent wrote:
14 > I'm wondering why the new nvidia 1.0-8774 drivers don't show up in portage
15 > at all? They were released 5 days ago. I would expect that the devs would be
16 > all over this like #ffffff on rice. It has support for Xorg 7.1 finally!
17 > Isn't that something we've all been anxiously waiting for?
18 >
19 > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=535&num=1
20 > http://digg.com/linux_unix/NVIDIA_1_0_8774_Linux_Driver_Released
21 >
22 > http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
23 >
24 > But then portage only goes up to 1.0-8762 and the last stable x86 release
25 > was way back to 1.0-6629 which is a bit shocking since I've used 1.0-8762
26 > for many months without incident. :-|
27 >
28 > http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=nvidia
29 >
30 > ��5��
31 >
32 >

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