Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers for 8600 GT

2007-05-13 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Markus Schönhaber wrote: Daniel Pielmeier wrote: You can try to rename the ebuild according to the new version and add it to your overlay, maybe it just works. I'll try it. A minor change to the ebuild to reflect the different numbering scheme of the beta driver's package was necessary.

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers for 8600 GT

2007-05-13 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Aleksandar L. Dimitrov wrote: I did something rather dirty today. I downloaded the newest Nvidia Beta Drivers and copied it over to /usr/portage/distfiles under the same name the in-portage driver had. So while portage thinks the old drivers are installed - that's not the case :) Oh yes,

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers for 8600 GT

2007-05-13 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
I did something rather dirty today. I downloaded the newest Nvidia Beta Drivers and copied it over to /usr/portage/distfiles under the same name the in-portage driver had. So while portage thinks the old drivers are installed - that's not the case :) Oh yes, dirty ;-) I assume you did also

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers for 8600 GT

2007-05-13 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: The result is the same, but creating an ebuild and putting it an overlay is a much more cleaner way of doing it. ACK. I did it that way. I didn't mention in my previous post that I did put the new ebuild into an overlay, though. Regards mks -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers for 8600 GT

2007-05-12 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Hello! Today I bought a graphics card with Nvidia 8600 GT chipset without taking into account that there might be no official nvidia drivers supporting this card yet. There are beta drivers (v. 100.14.03) available on nzone, though, that should get that card working, but there's no ebuild for

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers for 8600 GT

2007-05-12 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Today I bought a graphics card with Nvidia 8600 GT chipset without taking into account that there might be no official nvidia drivers supporting this card yet. There are beta drivers (v. 100.14.03) available on nzone, though, that should get that card working, but there's no ebuild for them

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers for 8600 GT

2007-05-12 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: I don't think that there is an overlay for those drivers. Take a look at this bugs [1][2] which are dealing with the new drivers. Maybe they will be added to the tree soon. Thanks for the pointers. You can try to rename the ebuild according to the new version and add

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers for 8600 GT

2007-05-12 Thread Aleksandar L. Dimitrov
On Sun, 13 May 2007 00:30:50 +0200 Markus Schönhaber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Pielmeier wrote: I don't think that there is an overlay for those drivers. Take a look at this bugs [1][2] which are dealing with the new drivers. Maybe they will be added to the tree soon. Thanks for