NV driver after building with only nvidia driver

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sargek · Post by **sargek** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 4:24 pm

I built my box with the nvidia driver listed in /etc/make.conf:

VIDEO_DRIVERS="nvidia"

and need to do some testing with the "nv" driver to see if there is a problem with the nvidia driver. How do I pull in the "nv" driver after modular X has been built? I added "nv" to the video driver list in make.conf, but cannot figure out how to get emerge to pull in the nv driver. Thanks in advance!

Post by **NeddySeagoon** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 5:17 pm

sargek,

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emerge x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv -1

sargek · Post by **sargek** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 6:10 pm

NeddySeagoon wrote:sargek,
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emerge x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv -1

Thanks much, appreciate the help!

MoonlitSapphire · Post by **MoonlitSapphire** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 1:12 am

For future reference, http://gentoo-portage.com/ may be of help.

Also,

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emerge -s

will search portage. Capitalise the 's' and it will search the description as well (the above site is much faster, however)

sargek · Post by **sargek** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 1:38 am

I've read the portage docs and know how to use search, but I was looking for "nv" and didn't find it. thanks for the help, appreciate it.

jcat · Post by **jcat** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 8:25 am

What about changing to:

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VIDEO_DRIVERS="nvidia nv"

and running

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emerge -uDNav world

?

Cheers,
jcat