On 22/08/2013 20:02, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > On 08/22/2013 08:42 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> You don't have two versions of nvidia-settings. >> You have one version of nvidia-drivers and one version of >> nvidia-settings, and they don't have the same version number. >> >> This is normal, nvidia-settings often runs behind nvidia-drivers. They >> do not seem to get updated at the same time (unless driver changes >> require it be done of course) > Thanks for your prompt response. > > There seem to be ebuilds available for both versions of the > nvidia-settings in the portage repository: > box0=; ls `pwd`/*|egrep '304.60|319.32' > /usr/portage/media-video/nvidia-settings/nvidia-settings-304.60.ebuild > /usr/portage/media-video/nvidia-settings/nvidia-settings-319.32.ebuild > > I've also noticed that in the xfce 'Applicatoins Menu' -> 'Settings', I > have two entries for nvidia-settings. > > Is there a reason why the xfce-sensors plug-in pulls in > nvidia-settings-304.60, instead of nvidia-settings-319.32?
xfce4-sensors-plugin is not what's doing it. It only requires nvidia-settings and doesn't care what version. So that's not it. There's really only one explanation - something else is pulling in nvidia-settings and xfce4-sensors-plugin is leaving it as-is. Please post the results of equery depends nvidia-settings grep -r nvidia-settings /etc/portage -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
