Re: Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia - starting from scatch

2003-03-12 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
It works, after installing the 4191.ebuild's the nvidia load perfect!! Before sending my last e-mail i have read the portage manual again but the solution you give me are not in there. Where can i find more info on the portage and emerge/ebuild. Again every one thanks for helping me. I must

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia - starting from scatch

2003-03-12 Thread Troy Dack
On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 20:19, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: It works, after installing the 4191.ebuild's the nvidia load perfect!! Before sending my last e-mail i have read the portage manual again but the solution you give me are not in there. Where can i find more info on the portage and

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia - starting from scatch

2003-03-12 Thread MAL
Louis C. Candell wrote: Patrick Marquetecken [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do this: cd /usr/portage/media-video/nvidia-kernel/ ebuild nvid*4191.ebuild merge OR open up the nvid*4191.ebuild in the same directory, and where you see: KEYWORDS=~x86 blah blah blah make it say: KEYWORDS=x86 blah blah

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia - starting from scatch

2003-03-12 Thread Collins Richey
On 12 Mar 2003 09:33:10 + Louis C. Candell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heh, a very helpful and down2earth developer named [EMAIL PROTECTED] hooked me up with the above information when he introduced me to gentoo and his sexual partner, GNU Emacs. It's nice having helpfull developers like

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia - starting from scatch

2003-03-12 Thread Louis C. Candell
Notice what you said: *Gentoo* Developers do a bang up job, and I for one thank my lucky stars that we have them. KEYWORD: *Gentoo* Hmm... I looked @ my post, and nowhere do I find the KEYWORD. Maybe you should read what is stated, instead of jumping to conclusions. Anyways, feel free to

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia - starting from scatch

2003-03-12 Thread Louis C. Candell
MAL [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for the tip! I'm going to try that right now :) I think the proper way to emerge a masked package is (eg.): ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge nvidia This temporarily changes what emerge accepts, rather than forcing or changing anything. MAL --

RE: [gentoo-user] nvidia - starting from scatch

2003-03-12 Thread Kevin J. Anderson
] nvidia - starting from scatch - - -MAL [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -Thanks for the tip! I'm going to try that right now :) - - - I think the proper way to emerge a masked package is (eg.): - - ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge nvidia - - This temporarily changes what emerge accepts, rather than forcing

Re: RE: [gentoo-user] nvidia - starting from scatch

2003-03-12 Thread douggorley
- I think the proper way to emerge a masked package is (eg.): - - ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge nvidia - - This temporarily changes what emerge accepts, rather than forcing or - changing anything. - -Thanks for the tip! I'm going to try that right now :) - The only problem w/ that, is

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia - starting from scatch

2003-03-12 Thread Joshua J. Berry
Make sure you do this for both nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx, as you need both the kernel part of the driver and the OpenGL/X11 part of the driver for everything to work properly. On Wednesday 12 March 2003 10:39, Louis C. Candell wrote: MAL [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for the tip! I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia - starting from scatch

2003-03-12 Thread MAL
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My preferred method is to emerge the ebuild file itself: emerge /usr/portage/somedir/mypackage-x.y.z.ebuild Then edit the /var/cache/edb/world file and change somedir/mypackage to =somedir/mypackage-x.y.z Works great. Thanks for that, it's useful when you