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The installation process takes care of everything, so no further action is required. All you need is reboot the system.
The installation process takes care of everything, so no further action is required. All you need is reboot the system.
==x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-legacy==

Revision as of 19:56, 2 July 2021

While Redcore Linux defaults to the open source x11-drivers/nouveau, it does provide two versions of the proprietary graphics driver for NVIDIA graphic cards : x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers && x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-legacy. Depending on the age of your card, you can install one or the other, as they cannot coexist on the same system.

x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers

The x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers package supports the most recent cards, and it should be your first choice if you have such a card. A list with the supported cards can be found at https://www.nvidia.co.uk/Download/driverResults.aspx/175958/en-uk.

Installation

Using sisyphus (cli):

root # sisyphus install --ebuild nvidia-drivers

These are the binary packages that would be merged, in order:

x11-libs/gdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.40.2

Total: 1 binary package(s)


These are the source packages that would be merged, in order:

acct-group/video-0-r1  sys-kernel/nvidia-drivers-dkms-460.67  x11-misc/nvidia-settings-460.67  x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-460.67

Total: 4 source package(s)

Would you like to proceed? [y/N]

Using portage:

root # emerge -av nvidia-drivers

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies             ... done!   
[ebuild  N     ] acct-group/video-0-r1::gentoo  0 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] sys-kernel/nvidia-drivers-dkms-460.67::redcore  173,528 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] x11-libs/gdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.40.2::gentoo  USE="-gtk-doc" ABI_X86="32 (64) (-x32)" 53 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] x11-misc/nvidia-settings-460.67::redcore  1,205 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-460.67::redcore  USE="X acpi dkms (libglvnd) multilib tools wayland -compat" ABI_X86="32 (64) (-x32)" 0 KiB

Total: 5 packages (5 new), Size of downloads: 174,784 KiB

Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No]

The installation process takes care of everything, so no further action is required. All you need is reboot the system.

x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-legacy