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> Also, gentoo has an "attic" where all older ebuilds are archived. You |
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> can grab the ebuild and any related files and use your local overlay to |
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> keep it around for as long as you need. |
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> |
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> http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/x11-drivers/ |
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> There are nvidia-drivers and a legacy branch for even older. In |
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> nvidia-drivers there is a link to view dead files (or attic) - prob same |
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> everywhere. |
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> BillK |
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That works great but the emerge fails during installation: |
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>>> Install nvidia-drivers-1.0.9639 into |
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/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.9639/image/ category |
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x11-drivers |
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* Installing nvidia module |
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* |
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* ERROR: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.9639 failed. |
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* Call stack: |
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* ebuild.sh, line 1701: Called dyn_install |
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* ebuild.sh, line 1138: Called qa_call 'src_install' |
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* ebuild.sh, line 44: Called src_install |
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* nvidia-drivers-1.0.9639.ebuild, line 231: Called die |
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* The specific snippet of code: |
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* [ -f "${FILESDIR}/nvidia" ] || die "nvidia missing in FILESDIR" |
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* The die message: |
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* nvidia missing in FILESDIR |
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Can anyone tell what happened? |
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- Grant |
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> > > The current version of nvidia-drivers I have installed is pretty old |
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> > > but it's the last one I've found that will display the resolution of |
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> > > my monitor correctly at 1366x768. The later versions insist on |
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> > > 1280x768 I think. I need to re-compile the nvidia module since I'm |
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> > > upgrading the kernel, but how can I do that if there is no ebuild? |
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> > |
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> > There is still the ebuild you have installed from |
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> > in /var/db/pkg/<category>/<package>. You can copy it over to your local |
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> > overlay and keep it there forever. |
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> > |
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> > HTH... |
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> > |
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> > Dirk |
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