Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia 1.0-8774 drivers not in portage

[Dale]

Jeff Grant wrote:
> # emerge -s nvidia
>
> *  x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
>       Latest version available: 1.0.8774
>       Latest version installed: 1.0.8774
>       Size of files: 31,714 kB
>       Homepage:      http://www.nvidia.com/
>       Description:   NVIDIA X11 driver and GLX libraries
>       License:       NVIDIA
>
> -Jeff
>
> Daevid Vincent wrote:
>
>> I'm wondering why the new nvidia 1.0-8774 drivers don't show up in portage
>> at all? They were released 5 days ago. I would expect that the devs would be
>> all over this like #ffffff on rice. It has support for Xorg 7.1 finally!
>> Isn't that something we've all been anxiously waiting for?
>>
>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=535&num=1
>> http://digg.com/linux_unix/NVIDIA_1_0_8774_Linux_Driver_Released
>>
>> http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
>>
>> But then portage only goes up to 1.0-8762 and the last stable x86 release
>> was way back to 1.0-6629 which is a bit shocking since I've used 1.0-8762
>> for many months without incident. :-|
>>
>> http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=nvidia
>>
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>>
>>
>>

Well, mine shows this at the moment:

> root@smoker / # equery list -p nvidia-drivers
> [ Searching for package 'nvidia-drivers' in all categories among: ]
>  * installed packages
>  * Portage tree (/usr/portage)
> [-P-] [M~] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8762 (0)
> [-P-] [ -] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8762-r1 (0)
> [-P-] [M~] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8774 (0)
> root@smoker / #

I synced last night so it may have been released today.  The Nvidia
website shows 8762 still.  Maybe a different one I guess.

Dale

:-)  :-)
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