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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-driver installation problems...
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 09:30:05
Message-Id: 20200410102950.1ca1c2db@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-driver installation problems... by tuxic@posteo.de
1 On Fri, 10 Apr 2020 11:25:16 +0200, tuxic@××××××.de wrote:
2
3 > If I remove nvidia-drivers and install the drivers of the same
4 > version as provided by nvidia itsself, everything works find.
5 >
6 > To examine this a little further I have put nividia-drivers
7 > into /etc/portage/profile/package.provided:
8 >
9 > >=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-340.108
10 >
11 > which will silently be ignored and nvidia-drivers will
12 > be emerged...which will lead to a whole lotta mess.
13
14 package.provided requires a specific version, try
15
16 x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-340.108
17
18 If you want to stop portage trying to replace this with a later version,
19 add ">x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-340.108", note > not >=, to package.mask.
20
21
22 --
23 Neil Bothwick
24
25 .sig a .sog of sixpence.

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