Nvidia [Solved]

[Jack45073]

Where do I post to get help on installing the latest NVIDIA drivers?

[micia]

I think that this section is the right place

You can get the latest Nvidia drivers using the entropy package manager, you can use equo from a console or sulfur, the entropy GUI frontend, here is an example using equo:

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equo update
equo install --ask nvidia-drivers


You could use portage to install them directly from source. You need some experience to use portage and it is not recommended for newbies.
Portage usually has more recent versions of the packages.
You can read the wiki to learn how to use entropy.

[Jack45073]

I first tried emerge but I got an error about my kernel then I tried

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equo update
equo install --ask nvidia-drivers

but it didn't do anything.

[micia]

can you post the output from the:

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equo install --ask nvidia-drivers


command?

You have to be root to install a package.
Use su to become root, like this:

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su


You will be prompted for a password, insert the root password (it will not output what you are typing).
Now you can run commands as root.

You can check that the drivers are in use using eselect:

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eselect opengl list


You should see something like:

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eselect opengl list
Available OpenGL implementations:
  [1]   nvidia *
  [2]   xorg-x11
  [3]   ati


there is a '*' next the currently active drivers.
If it is not next 'nvidia' make them current using:

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eselect opengl set nvidia


You have to be root for this too.

[Jack45073]

It worked this time with

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su

it just didn't install the latest drivers it installed the same ones I had.

[micia]

To get a more recent version probably you will need to use portage, I would wait for them to be added to entropy, but if you really want the latest ones you need to get the kernel sources (so that they can be compiled).
You can get them from entropy too, as root:

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equo install sabayon-sources


Now you need to update the portage package list:

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emerge --sync && layman -S


now you can emerge the latest nvidia drivers:

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emerge -av nvidia-drivers


Be careful using portage, you need some experience, also this procedure involves mixing entropy and portage.
You should let entropy know what portage did, using:

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equo rescue spmsync


otherwise entropy will think that it has still the old nvidia-drivers package installed.

Probably entropy will try to reinstall the old version of that package, since entropy tries to replace packages that are not installed by itself.
You can change this behaviour changing the:
ignore-spm-downgrades
in /etc/entropy/client.conf from disable to enable.
Like:

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ignore-spm-downgrades|enable


(you need to be root to do this)

Again, if you have no experience with portage, do this only if you really need the new version of the Nvidia drivers.

[Jack45073]

Thanks again for the help, TF2 on Wine is running smooth now I was only getting 8-12 FPS and it went up to 25-30 gonna go check out the Wine site for tweaks