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On Tuesday 21 February 2006 10.50, Jürgen Schinker wrote: |
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> Yeah but a lot user run in this trap... |
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> and at least it was the only way to get my resolution running |
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> i use 1920x1200 native...and 3D opengl |
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> so tell me how do i get rid of all this nvidia-fetch stuff... |
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> and then how to convert to a only Gentoo way |
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> and put a red warning on the howto install nvidia on Gentoo to |
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> never ever use the Nvidia-scripts |
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I gave a lot of thinking to this and came up with the following: |
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a) I removed the nvidia stuff (running the installer with --remove I think, or |
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look at the docs). No problem here. |
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b) emerge would not propose me anything else, but if you unmask nvidia-glx it |
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does (THIS should be put in red). |
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c) there are other things to unmask. I added the following to |
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package.keywords: |
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media-video/nvidia-glx |
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media-video/nvidia-kernel |
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app-admin/eselect |
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=app-admin/eselect-opengl-1.0.3 |
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and then I was able to emerge the last driver. |
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I don't know if the fact of installing/uninstalling the nvidia stuff broke |
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something - does not seem to have so far. |
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I find the whole dealing with masked packages is badly explained - probably by |
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people who know the stuff so well they can't explain it clearly for newbies. |
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I had no time to look if that cured the problems with the games that crashed - |
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I doubt it will - but where the nvidia driver worked the Gentoo version does |
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as well. |
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I don't know if the nvidia how-to I read was outdated, but it never said |
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anything about unmaking anything, nor about eselct stuff. |
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Thierry |
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The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a |
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capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the |
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safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? |
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Frank Zappa |
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