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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Non-portage nVidia driver install.
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:58:12
Message-Id: 20080317225803.5a16dabb@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Non-portage nVidia driver install. by darren kirby
1 On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:40:11 -0600, darren kirby wrote:
2
3 > I just built myself a brand new AMD64 system with an EVGA Geforce
4 > 9600GT. This vid card requires a newer version of nvidia drivers
5 > (171.06) than is available from portage, so I will have to install it
6 > manually.
7
8 According to http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213116 you can copy
9 nvidia-drivers-169.12.ebuild to nvidia-drivers-171.06.ebuild in your
10 overlay and it will install the new drivers.
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14 Neil Bothwick
15
16 "Bother," said Pooh, as he fell off the bridge with his stick.

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