Re: [gentoo-user] Non-portage nVidia driver install.

2008-03-17 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Neil Bothwick: > On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:40:11 -0600, darren kirby wrote: > > I just built myself a brand new AMD64 system with an EVGA Geforce > > 9600GT. This vid card requires a newer version of nvidia drivers > > (171.06) than is available from portage, so I will have to install it > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Non-portage nVidia driver install.

2008-03-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:40:11 -0600, darren kirby wrote: > I just built myself a brand new AMD64 system with an EVGA Geforce > 9600GT. This vid card requires a newer version of nvidia drivers > (171.06) than is available from portage, so I will have to install it > manually. According to http://bu

[gentoo-user] Non-portage nVidia driver install.

2008-03-17 Thread darren kirby
Hi all, I just built myself a brand new AMD64 system with an EVGA Geforce 9600GT. This vid card requires a newer version of nvidia drivers (171.06) than is available from portage, so I will have to install it manually. I am wondering if there are any gotchas I should keep in mind before instal