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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] re: xfce4-sensors-plugin pulling in nvidia-settings
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 17:45:39
Message-Id: 52164D6A.1050908@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] re: xfce4-sensors-plugin pulling in nvidia-settings by Alexander Kapshuk
1 On 22/08/2013 19:37, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
2 > When setting up the X server and the proprietary ndivia driver, as
3 > described here (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/NVidia/nvidia-drivers), I
4 > emerged nvidia-settings, as suggested in the wiki article, The drivers
5 > can be installed with the *gtk* USE flag set in /etc/portage/make.conf.
6 > This will install *media-video/nvidia-settings*, a handy graphical tool
7 > for monitoring and configuring several aspects of your nVidia card.
8 >
9 > The version of the nvidia driver and nvidia settings I emerged is:
10 > box0=; equery list '*'|grep nvidia-driver
11 > x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-319.32
12 >
13 > I then emerged xfce4 as well as the xfce4-sensors-plugin (box0=; equery
14 > list '*'|grep xfce4-sensors-plugin
15 > xfce-extra/xfce4-sensors-plugin-1.2.5), which pulled in nvidia-settings
16 > of an older version:
17 > box0=; equery list '*'|grep nvidia-settings
18 > media-video/nvidia-settings-304.60
19 >
20 > I had a look at the xfce4-sensors-plugin ebuild, and found
21 > nvidia-settings listed as a dependency, with no version specified.
22 >
23 > RDEPEND=">=x11-libs/gtk+-2.14:2
24 > >=xfce-base/libxfce4ui-4.8
25 > >=xfce-base/xfce4-panel-4.8
26 > hddtemp? ( app-admin/hddtemp net-analyzer/gnu-netcat )
27 > libnotify? ( >=x11-libs/libnotify-0.7 )
28 > lm_sensors? ( >=sys-apps/lm_sensors-3.1.0 )
29 > video_cards_nvidia? ( media-video/nvidia-settings )"
30 >
31 > I now seem to have both versions of nvidia-settings installed.
32 >
33 > How do I fix that please?
34
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37 You don't have two versions of nvidia-settings.
38 You have one version of nvidia-drivers and one version of
39 nvidia-settings, and they don't have the same version number.
40
41 This is normal, nvidia-settings often runs behind nvidia-drivers. They
42 do not seem to get updated at the same time (unless driver changes
43 require it be done of course)
44
45
46 --
47 Alan McKinnon
48 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

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Re: [gentoo-user] re: xfce4-sensors-plugin pulling in nvidia-settings Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@×××××.com>