Neil Bothwick <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 07 Nov 2015 03:23:53 -0500, [email protected] wrote:
>
> > this led me to think that maybe nvidia-settings had something to do with
> > it and I discovered I had an old version not sure how that got to stay
> > and I tried to install the latest one, which had two effects -- it
> > downgraded nvidia-drivers to 3.55.11 and tried to install
> > nvidia-settings, but that would not install because there is a file
> > conflict with -- guess what -- nvidia drivers! So I unmerged the old
> > one and for now it seems to work, but I don't know what will happen in
> > the future this way. Very strange!
>
> Looking at the ebuilds, it appears that nvidia-settings is installed by
> the nvdidia-drivers package, controlled by the tools USE flag. Try
> setting that flag and unmerging nvidia-settings.
hmmm, tools seems to be the default and it did not emerge
nvidia-settings, but it did want to upgrade the driver, but I think I
will leave it for now since it seems to be working without the
nvidia-settings package which has a conflict anyway.
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