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From: walt <w41ter@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Problem with old nvidia-drivers-71.86.11 (depending x11-base/xorg-server vanished form portage-tree)
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:39:33
Message-Id: hgopsp$b3o$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Problem with old nvidia-drivers-71.86.11 (depending x11-base/xorg-server vanished form portage-tree) by "Christian Könitzer"
1 On 12/21/2009 08:48 AM, Christian Könitzer wrote:
2 > Hi list,
3 >
4 > I'm using a quite old NVIDIA card aqnd it worked well but since a few days it seams to be deprecated. After a eix --sync I got this:
5 > emerge -DuN world
6 > Calculating dependencies... done!
7 >
8 > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "<x11-base/xorg-server-1.4.99".
9 > (dependency required by "x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-71.86.11" [installed])
10
11 Hm. I used that driver until very recently, when my brother-in-law
12 upgraded his video card and gave the old one for free. His timing
13 is not usually that good. :o)
14
15 You can still use the nv driver, if that's adequate for your needs.
16
17 If the nv driver isn't good enough, then I'd say it's time upgrade your
18 video card after all these years. I never really noticed any difference
19 between the nvidia and nv drivers when I still used the old TNT card.

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