Re: [gentoo-user] Weird Screen-Overlay problems after update

[Tom Wijsman]

On Tue, 15 Apr 2014 19:39:09 +0200
meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:

> Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o> [14-04-15 19:36]:
> > On Tue, 15 Apr 2014 17:59:19 +0200
> > meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
> >
> > > Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> [14-04-15 17:33]:
> > > To exegrate the whole discussion:
> > >
> > > "Help! I have a problem with Linux!"
> > >
> > > "...I have some heard of Linux...bad things...use windows
> > > instead!"
> > >
> > > So: Due to the already mentioned reasons I cannot use other
> > > hardware/ other software. I need to get THIS running.
> > >
> > > Next question: How can I downgrade to the previous version of
> > > nvidia-drivers/nvidia-settings/nvidia-cude-toolkit, which works
> > > nice for me?
> >
> > Put the version you don't want in /etc/portage/package.mask; see
> > `man portage` for details, but for example if you don't want 337.12
> > or newer, you would do something like this:
> >
> > /etc/portage/package.mask:
> >
> >     >=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-337.12
> >
> > Then doing `emerge -u x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers` will downgrade it.
> >
> > --
> > With kind regards,
> >
> > Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
> > Gentoo Developer
> >
> > E-mail address  : TomWij@g.o
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> >
>
> ...problem here is, that the emerge process already killed all ebuilds
> except the newest one of nvidie-cuda-toolkit and nvidia-settings...

There is a nvidia-settings in nvidia-drivers already; as for
nvidia-cuda-toolkit, there are two versions available:

 $ cd /usr/portage/dev-util/nvidia-cuda-toolkit/; ls *.ebuild
nvidia-cuda-toolkit-4.2.9-r2.ebuild  nvidia-cuda-toolkit-5.5.22.ebuild

They are both stable.

-- 
With kind regards,

Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
Gentoo Developer

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