On Fri, 10 Apr 2020 11:25:16 +0200, [email protected] wrote:

> If I remove nvidia-drivers and install the drivers of the same
> version as provided by nvidia itsself, everything works find.
> 
> To examine this a little further I have put nividia-drivers
> into /etc/portage/profile/package.provided:
> 
>     >=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-340.108  
> 
> which will silently be ignored and nvidia-drivers will
> be emerged...which will lead to a whole lotta mess.

package.provided requires a specific version, try 

x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-340.108

If you want to stop portage trying to replace this with a later version,
add ">x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-340.108", note > not >=, to package.mask.


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