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From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia 1.0-8774 drivers not in portage
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 03:18:43
Message-Id: 44F50261.3010508@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] nvidia 1.0-8774 drivers not in portage by Daevid Vincent
1 Daevid Vincent wrote:
2 > I'm wondering why the new nvidia 1.0-8774 drivers don't show up in portage
3 > at all? They were released 5 days ago. I would expect that the devs would be
4 > all over this like #ffffff on rice. It has support for Xorg 7.1 finally!
5 > Isn't that something we've all been anxiously waiting for?
6 >
7 > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=535&num=1
8 > http://digg.com/linux_unix/NVIDIA_1_0_8774_Linux_Driver_Released
9 >
10 > http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
11 >
12 > But then portage only goes up to 1.0-8762 and the last stable x86 release
13 > was way back to 1.0-6629 which is a bit shocking since I've used 1.0-8762
14 > for many months without incident. :-|
15 >
16 > http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=nvidia
17
18 http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8774.ebuild?rev=1.1&view=markup
19 says it was added almost 5 days ago.
20
21 Thanks,
22 Donnie
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