Bug 336088

Summary:	media-video/nvidia-settings: poor handling of features move to x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Fabio Erculiani (RETIRED) <lxnay>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) <cardoe>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Fabio Erculiani (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-09-05 13:48:47 UTC

http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/media-video/nvidia-settings/nvidia-settings-256.52.ebuild?r1=1.2&r2=1.3

1. no information wag given to user about the migration of nvidia-settings to nvidia-drivers leaving them in a WTH status
2. What's the point of media-video/nvidia-settings package now? Not this "NVIDIA Linux X11 Settings Utility" for sure

So please, either remove the package or fix it adding a blocker against nvidia-drivers[gtk] and restoring its functionality.

Comment 1 Piotr Jaroszyński (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-09-05 13:54:55 UTC

It should have been renamed to reflect only providing the libs.

Comment 2 Fabio Erculiani (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-09-05 14:12:44 UTC

For reference: https://bugs.gentoo.org/304255

Beside the exact subject of this bug:
@cardoe: the problem in providing a separate x11-drivers/nvidia-settings package (with proper blockers against nvidia-drivers[gtk])?

Comment 3 Fabio Erculiani (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-09-05 14:18:09 UTC

$ qlist -e nvidia-settings
/usr/include/NVCtrl/NVCtrl.h
/usr/include/NVCtrl/NVCtrlLib.h
/usr/share/doc/nvidia-settings-256.52/FRAMELOCK.txt.bz2
/usr/share/doc/nvidia-settings-256.52/NV-CONTROL-API.txt.bz2
/usr/lib64/libXNVCtrl.a

Comment 4 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-09-05 16:07:20 UTC

See https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321061#c95 for reasoning.

Comment 5 tbartdev 2011-05-11 10:10:17 UTC

WAIT!

There is another serious problem with removing the nvidia-settings utility from the nvidia-settings package!

The gtk USE might be an appropriate substitute for current drivers=cards.

However, there are users (like the one i am maintaining this system for) that have older cards that can only handle up to version 173.14.28 (at the moment, maybe there will be updates for 173 series to come, I don't know...).

This effectively removed nvidia-settings from this system leaving me in the mentioned WTH situation ;->

I uncommented the respective lines in the ebuild and the utility is back, but this can't be the solution.

(you have to know the display is such a crap you can't differentiate gray from white without heavily adjusting the gamma ;-> )

If the 173 series won't have nvidia-settings in them with the gtk use flag, there has to be e.g. a gtk use flag for nvidia-settings as well that results in a block, if nvidia-drivers >=260 series are installed with gtk use or sth the like.

That would be a good solution IMO anyway, as building nvidia-settings and not getting the gui and just the libraries without a use flag indicating this seems rather illogical to me. just my .02 EUR.

Comment 6 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-06-19 04:02:49 UTC

This is now resolved so that you can install both at the same time and use whichever one you prefer. Nothing is missing from either package.