Bug 127705 – backport nvidia-settings modular X change to 1.0.7167

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST

[Description matthew.cline 2006-03-26 20:43:05 UTC]

When trying to emerge nvidia-settings-1.0.7167, I came across the error mentioned in bug #123071. Ths is fixed in the latest versions of nvidia-settings, but it still occurs in older versions like 1.0.7167.

Since lots of people with older nvidia cards are stuck using the older versions of nvidia-settings, nvidia-kernel, nvidia-glx etc., I think it might be a good idea to backport the modular X changes to the older ebuilds. I've attached a first attempt at this. Basically, i took the most-recent ebuild for nvidia-settings and  made a few simple modifications to it.

I'm no ebuild expert, so this is probably done incorrectly, but it works for me.

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-03-27 02:14:30 UTC]

*** Bug 127706 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 2 matthew.cline 2006-03-27 18:54:53 UTC]

Created attachment 83275 [details, diff]
my bad attempt at a patch to the ebuild

This is basically a copy of the latest ebuild version, with a few tweaks.

[Comment 3 Kris Kersey (RETIRED) 2006-07-07 14:01:17 UTC]

Please try out the latest versions of the new x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers or x11-drivers/nvidia-legacy-drivers.  Then try out the latest nvidia-settings.  Does everything work as expected?

[Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-09-18 02:24:01 UTC]

No response from user.

[Comment 5 matthew.cline 2006-09-18 07:26:32 UTC]

I apologzie for not responding, but I'm not using Gentoo right now on the computer for which I submitted this. However, I have been using the nvidia-legacy driver under Ubuntu without problems, so I am sure it would work under Gentoo as well.