Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia 1.0-8774 drivers not in portage

On Tuesday 29 August 2006 23:12, Dale wrote:
> Jeff Grant wrote:
> > # emerge -s nvidia
> >
> > *  x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
> >       Latest version available: 1.0.8774
> >       Latest version installed: 1.0.8774
> >       Size of files: 31,714 kB
> >       Homepage:      http://www.nvidia.com/
> >       Description:   NVIDIA X11 driver and GLX libraries
> >       License:       NVIDIA
> >
> > -Jeff
> >
> > Daevid Vincent wrote:
> >> I'm wondering why the new nvidia 1.0-8774 drivers don't show up in
> >> portage at all? They were released 5 days ago. I would expect that the
> >> devs would be all over this like #ffffff on rice. It has support for
> >> Xorg 7.1 finally! Isn't that something we've all been anxiously waiting
> >> for?
> >>
> >> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=535&num=1
> >> http://digg.com/linux_unix/NVIDIA_1_0_8774_Linux_Driver_Released
> >>
> >> http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
> >>
> >> But then portage only goes up to 1.0-8762 and the last stable x86
> >> release was way back to 1.0-6629 which is a bit shocking since I've used
> >> 1.0-8762 for many months without incident. :-|
> >>
> >> http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=nvidia
> >>
> >> ��5��
>
> Well, mine shows this at the moment:
> > root@smoker / # equery list -p nvidia-drivers
> > [ Searching for package 'nvidia-drivers' in all categories among: ]
> >  * installed packages
> >  * Portage tree (/usr/portage)
> > [-P-] [M~] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8762 (0)
> > [-P-] [ -] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8762-r1 (0)
> > [-P-] [M~] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8774 (0)
> > root@smoker / #
>
> I synced last night so it may have been released today.  The Nvidia
> website shows 8762 still.  Maybe a different one I guess.

the 8774 drivers are in portage since the 25th. Maybe even earlier, but that 
was the day, when I installed them.

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