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From: Daniel Pielmeier <daniel.pielmeier@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers for 8600 GT
Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 19:06:04
Message-Id: 46460EC1.4060904@googlemail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers for 8600 GT by "Markus Schönhaber"
1 > Today I bought a graphics card with Nvidia 8600 GT chipset without
2 > taking into account that there might be no official nvidia drivers
3 > supporting this card yet. There are beta drivers (v. 100.14.03)
4 > available on nzone, though, that should get that card working, but
5 > there's no ebuild for them in portage.
6 > Does an overlay with an ebuild for those drivers exist? If so, where?
7
8 I don't think that there is an overlay for those drivers.
9 Take a look at this bugs [1][2] which are dealing with the new drivers.
10 Maybe they will be added to the tree soon.
11
12 You can try to rename the ebuild according to the new version and add it
13 to your overlay, maybe it just works.
14
15 [1]http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=175674
16 [2]http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=176135
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Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers for 8600 GT "Markus Schönhaber" <gentoo-user@×××××××××××.de>