[gentoo-user] How do I get the x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8776-r1 back?

[Daevid Vincent]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daevid Vincent [mailto:daevid@××××××.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 8:23 PM
> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> Subject: [gentoo-user] Upgraded kernel from .17 to .23 and
> all sorts of broken things... (nvidia, splash, iptables)
>
> I had to upgrade my kernel from linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 to
> linux-2.6.23-gentoo-r9
>
> Now all sorts of things are broken.
>
> First and foremost, I used to use:
>
> x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8776-r1
>
> But I can't re-emerge that now -- it's gone!? WTF!?
>
> [I] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
>      Available versions:  71.86.01 (~)71.86.04 96.43.01 (~)96.43.05
> [m]100.14.09 [m](~)100.14.11 [m]100.14.19 [M](~)100.14.23 [m](~)169.07
> [m](~)169.09 [m](~)169.09-r1 [m](~)169.12 {acpi custom-cflags gtk
> kernel_linux multilib}
>      Installed versions:  96.43.05(18:44:21 03/03/08)(acpi
> gtk kernel_linux
> -multilib)
>      Homepage:            http://www.nvidia.com/
>      Description:         NVIDIA X11 driver and GLX libraries
>
> So, I tried to emerge whatever the latest stable one was and
> it told me that
> I was fsck'd and to mask out >=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-97.0.0.
>
> Re-emerge again, and it gives me 96.43.05.
>
> Now when I start X, I have a @#(*&$@# blank/black screen! UGH!
>
> What now? How do I get back the only working driver for this
> piece of crap
> GeForce 440 Go card that is apparently unsupported now in
> newer drivers.
> (It's in a Dell i8200 notebook -- I CAN'T replace the card BTW)

So this page finally loaded today:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Video_Card_Support_Under_XGL#nVidia

And it says:

nVidia GeForce 4 Go 440 32Mb (with latest
x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8774) 

So again, how can I get this driver back since it seems to be missing from
portage now?! *sigh*

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