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From: Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Weird Screen-Overlay problems after update
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 17:34:32
Message-Id: 20140415193329.1b381d8d@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Weird Screen-Overlay problems after update by meino.cramer@gmx.de
1 On Tue, 15 Apr 2014 17:59:19 +0200
2 meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
3
4 > Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> [14-04-15 17:33]:
5 > To exegrate the whole discussion:
6 >
7 > "Help! I have a problem with Linux!"
8 >
9 > "...I have some heard of Linux...bad things...use windows instead!"
10 >
11 > So: Due to the already mentioned reasons I cannot use other hardware/
12 > other software. I need to get THIS running.
13 >
14 > Next question: How can I downgrade to the previous version of
15 > nvidia-drivers/nvidia-settings/nvidia-cude-toolkit, which works
16 > nice for me?
17
18 Put the version you don't want in /etc/portage/package.mask; see `man
19 portage` for details, but for example if you don't want 337.12 or newer,
20 you would do something like this:
21
22 /etc/portage/package.mask:
23
24 >=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-337.12
25
26 Then doing `emerge -u x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers` will downgrade it.
27
28 --
29 With kind regards,
30
31 Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
32 Gentoo Developer
33
34 E-mail address : TomWij@g.o
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