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On 07/11/2011 02:30 PM, Dale wrote: |
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>> =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.99.99 or something to that effect. |
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>> I just can't recall how to do it at the moment but each time I do a |
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>> emerge -uvDNa world, it wants to upgrade the nvidia drivers to the |
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>> 275 series or something. |
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I've had the same problem many times -- and so far it's always been my |
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bad typing skills :) |
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I have exactly the same needs on my old machine, and here's what I have: |
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#grep nvidia /etc/portage/package.mask |
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>=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-177.80 |
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<=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.27 (can't remember why I did this) |
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In my experience the disadvantage of using the older drivers is that |
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nVidia is slow to fix build breakage introduced by Linus et al. |
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I test Linus's daily kernel updates (because I like pain, that's why) |
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and I've had to fudge all kinds of stuff to get the 173.x.x drivers |
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to build against the new kernel headers. You'd think I could find |
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something better to do with my time -- but no... |
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