Tom Wijsman <tom...@gentoo.org> [14-04-15 19:36]: > On Tue, 15 Apr 2014 17:59:19 +0200 > meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> [14-04-15 17:33]: > > To exegrate the whole discussion: > > > > "Help! I have a problem with Linux!" > > > > "...I have some heard of Linux...bad things...use windows instead!" > > > > So: Due to the already mentioned reasons I cannot use other hardware/ > > other software. I need to get THIS running. > > > > Next question: How can I downgrade to the previous version of > > nvidia-drivers/nvidia-settings/nvidia-cude-toolkit, which works > > nice for me? > > Put the version you don't want in /etc/portage/package.mask; see `man > portage` for details, but for example if you don't want 337.12 or newer, > you would do something like this: > > /etc/portage/package.mask: > > >=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-337.12 > > Then doing `emerge -u x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers` will downgrade it. > > -- > With kind regards, > > Tom Wijsman (TomWij) > Gentoo Developer > > E-mail address : tom...@gentoo.org > GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D > GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D >
...problem here is, that the emerge process already killed all ebuilds except the newest one of nvidie-cuda-toolkit and nvidia-settings... And the emerge detects a mismatch between the nvidia-drivers to downgrade and the (still newest) nvidie-cuda-toolkit and nvidia-settings and refuses to do anything... lost? Best regards, mcc
