Bug 399159 – x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-295.20 version bump

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Robert Cabrera 2012-01-17 11:48:07 UTC]

New Nvidia linux drivers with several important bug fixes including bug 389686 which effects all Geforce-7 and older laptops. The fix has been included in this driver release per the 2 Nvidia representatives in the Nvidia forum, sandipt and Plagman in the thread about thie above mentioned bug.

Reproducible: Always




I've successfully installed these new drivers on my laptop by modifying the latest ebuild and installing it from my overlay.

TIA

[Comment 1 Robert Cabrera 2012-01-17 12:02:25 UTC]

Correction, the ebuild I modified was version-290.06.

[Comment 2 jospezial 2012-01-22 02:08:56 UTC]

Created attachment 299489 [details]
modified copy of 290.10.ebuild

I copied the nvidia-drivers-290.10.ebuild to my local overlay and renamed it.
Had to modify the SRC url to ftp://download.nvidia.com/....

Then ran
ebuild /usr/local/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-295.09.ebuild digest

Installs fine with kernel 3.2.1

Does not compile against git-sources-3.3_rc1. (*** Unable to determine the target kernel version. ***)
Same as in https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=399609

[Comment 3 jospezial 2012-01-22 02:20:14 UTC]

Created attachment 299493 [details]
nvidia-drivers-295.09.ebuild

did some things wrong on adding the attachment

[Comment 4 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) 2012-01-23 21:28:12 UTC]

Git sources aren't supported and won't ever be.

[Comment 5 jospezial 2012-02-01 17:37:31 UTC]

Next project:

x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-295.17 version bump
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=401829

with solution for git-sources

[Comment 6 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2012-02-01 17:41:48 UTC]

*** Bug 401829 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 7 jospezial 2012-02-03 16:29:41 UTC]

Created attachment 300867 [details]
nvidia-drivers-295.17.ebuild

Because of the duplicate back here again.

I copied the nvidia-drivers-290.10.ebuild to my local overlay and renamed it.
Had to modify the SRC url to ftp://download.nvidia.com/....

Then ran
ebuild
/usr/local/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-295.17.ebuild
digest

Installs fine with kernel 3.1.9 and 3.2.2

To compile against git-sources-3.3_rc2 (*** Unable to determine the
target kernel version. ***) use that command:

cd /lib/modules/<kernel name>/source/arch/x86/include ; sudo cp
generated/asm/*.h ./asm"

Have a nice day!

[Comment 8 jospezial 2012-02-10 01:10:45 UTC]

Created attachment 301433 [details]
nvidia-drivers-295.17.ebuild

beta with latest fixes from 290.10-r1 for open-cl and cuda.

On latest 3.3-rc* kernels you still have to do this before emerge:

cp -av /usr/src/linux/arch/x86/include/generated/asm/*.h /usr/src/linux/arch/x86/include/asm/

Happy beta testing!

[Comment 9 Nikos Chantziaras 2012-02-13 14:41:11 UTC]

295.20 stable (non-beta) drivers are out:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-ia32-295.20-driver.html

[Comment 10 jospezial 2012-02-14 14:08:11 UTC]

Created attachment 301923 [details]
nvidia-drivers-295.20.ebuild

renamed copy of nvidia-drivers-290.10-r1.ebuild

HTTP download works this time as it is a "stable" release.

See upper comments for details.

[Comment 11 Nikos Chantziaras 2012-02-14 15:30:51 UTC]

(In reply to comment #10)
> Created attachment 301923 [details]
> nvidia-drivers-295.20.ebuild
> 
> renamed copy of nvidia-drivers-290.10-r1.ebuild
> 
> HTTP download works this time as it is a "stable" release.
> 
> See upper comments for details.

You don't need to attach it here. You can find it in /usr/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/ :-/

[Comment 12 Nikos Chantziaras 2012-02-15 15:18:27 UTC]

Please also bump nvidia-settings.

[Comment 13 Dmitry Suloev 2012-03-19 02:36:09 UTC]

Please update ebuild. It still require x11-base/xorg-server less that 1.11.99, but xorg-server-1.12.0 already in portage.

[Comment 14 jospezial 2012-03-19 13:02:08 UTC]

Created attachment 305877 [details]
modified nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1.ebuild open for next xorg-server 1.12.0 + 1.13

On latest 3.3-rc* kernels you still have to do this before emerge:

cp -av /usr/src/linux/arch/x86/include/generated/asm/*.h /usr/src/linux/arch/x86/include/asm/

for xorg-server 1.12 use my ebuild with your local overlay and run:
ebuild /usr/local/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1.ebuild digest

Happy testing!

[Comment 15 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) 2012-03-23 15:35:15 UTC]

This is already in the tree.