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nVIDIA in Gentoo
posted on August 23rd 2007, at 20:58
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lunarg
Information about nvidia in Gentoo can be found here.
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml
It goes more in detail about which driver versions are suitable for which nvidia cards; quite handy, since they kicked out nvidia-legacy-drivers.
If you don't want to read the article, here's the short story about the driver version:
Geforce FX, 6, 7 and 8: use the newest driver (100.xx and up)
Geforce 3 and 4: max 96.xx
TNT, TNT2, Geforce and Geforce 2: max 71.xx
In order to properly install the correct version, it is recommended to mask the packages like so:
Add the following to /etc/portage/package.mask:
>=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.9700
Add the following to /etc/portage/pa
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