Skipping a bunch of stuff that I don't know the answers to...
On 7/11/06, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I looked at man portage, and I am not quite sure about this:
Is it possible to unmask the useflag by, for example, writing to
/etc/portage/use.mask the line -video_cards_nvidia? Or
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 10:59:40PM -0700, Penguin Lover Richard Fish squawked:
I believe adding -video_cards_nvidia to
/etc/portage/profile/use.mask (notice the directory!) should do it.
But really this doesn't matter...this use flag is only used to add a
dependancy on the nvidia drivers for
On 7/12/06, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I see, just one last question about this: so I am assuming that this
means that the use flag would allow xorg-x11 to pull in nvidia-drivers
as a dependency. All I really need to do then is to emerge
nvidia-drivers separately myself?
Right.
A emerge update after a recent sync turns up the following message:
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy nvidia-kernel have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete
your request:
- media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.7676-r1 (masked by: package.mask)
# These
On 7/11/06, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1. nv still doesn't do 3D acceleration, right?
Yes.
2. Is there more information about what more harm than good means?
I tried googling but the only thing I found was a commit log on
solar's website with a one-liner about p.masking
On 7/11/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 7/11/06, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1. nv still doesn't do 3D acceleration, right?
Yes.
*Sigh*. Yes, I know I replying to myself 15 seconds after posting,
and that is a faux-pas. Sorry.
But my response here wasn't clear.
First, thanks for the pointers. See below
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 07:08:52PM -0700, Penguin Lover Richard Fish squawked:
On 7/11/06, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2. Is there more information about what more harm than good means?
I tried googling but the only thing I found was a
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