Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 19:27:32 -0500, Dale wrote:
WAG - have you tried the nv drivers?
I did but I couldn't get X to even start. I guess something is not set
right somewhere. I have nv in make.conf and been there since I built
this thing so sort of clueless on why it don't work.
Did you remove the nvidia drivers and xorg.conf?
You mean emerge -C the nvidia drivers? The last time I used the nv
drivers, I just had to change it from nvidia to nv in xorg.conf.
While I am at it, what is the syntax to mask a package higher than a
certain version in package.mask? I tired =>package.name.version and
tried>= package.name.version but the former doesn't work and seems to
ignore it and the later makes emerge print a boo boo message. On my
old rig, I want to mask anything above the 173 series. So far, I
haven't had the light bulb moment and never can remember how to do this.
category/package-version
Let me try and explain this way. This is the list of drivers in the tree:
[-P-] [ ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-96.43.19:0
[-P-] [ ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.28:0
[-P-] [ ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.30:0
[-P-] [ ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-256.53:0
[-P-] [ ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-260.19.44:0
[-P-] [ ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-270.41.06:0
[IP-] [ ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-270.41.19:0
[-P-] [ ~] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-275.09.07:0
I want my old rig to be able to upgrade to whatever gets released in the
173 series but no to anything above that, since they don't work with my
card. I was thinking I used to do it like this:
>=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.99.99 or something to that effect. I
just can't recall how to do it at the moment but each time I do a emerge
-uvDNa world, it wants to upgrade the nvidia drivers to the 275 series
or something.
See what I am running into? I don't think I was to clear before. One
of those days.
Dale
:-) :-)
