diff --git a/gui-libs/egl-x11/Manifest b/gui-libs/egl-x11/Manifest
index 5ff4cca006cc2..d919bb925c135 100644
--- a/gui-libs/egl-x11/Manifest
+++ b/gui-libs/egl-x11/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST egl-x11-1.0.5.tar.gz 73642 BLAKE2B 0a82f308d5888cdaa6affa2699a9689c091d4f64bc88fccda744f980b593b22a09d0ebfb001ef2ef36bb5da6f9911b0ee4125e4aef80421f7ce32e424aaa75e6 SHA512 375cc7943bca0c8e2abe6d2b1ae4758d8588442eddc7e2b881455273d8224e60dd38829f5610394eee5ce95b4814f6390eff28185c1b83bb2ef8812d887cad8f
+DIST egl-x11-1.0.6.tar.gz 74920 BLAKE2B f05b7ab68da21e6bd83143a48b89bf6fd9be472461dda8a0d0aaf2d6521ca882197c853e9c7a818a67088292edd98afdcce7f0070be1b741740ec74382d7a4de SHA512 aeab9cdcc54df63fe98aebd488a7d0291cd04d2f18a2b5e834c88aeac290130e14c723de2f7f65afe770790737114e4e7f5aae4a88578c88ce972f3e6871f9d4
diff --git a/gui-libs/egl-x11/egl-x11-1.0.6.ebuild b/gui-libs/egl-x11/egl-x11-1.0.6.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..f56d25f0facf2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gui-libs/egl-x11/egl-x11-1.0.6.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+# Copyright 2024-2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit meson-multilib
+
+DESCRIPTION="NVIDIA X11/XCB EGL external platform library"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/NVIDIA/egl-x11/"
+
+if [[ ${PV} == *_pre* ]]; then
+	# happens often that nvidia-drivers ships with a (yet) unreleased
+	# version and we need to ship a snapshot to provide the same fixes
+	HASH_EGLX11=
+	SRC_URI="
+		https://github.com/NVIDIA/egl-x11/archive/${HASH_EGLX11}.tar.gz
+			-> ${P}.tar.gz
+	"
+	S=${WORKDIR}/${PN}-${HASH_EGLX11}
+else
+	SRC_URI="
+		https://github.com/NVIDIA/egl-x11/archive/refs/tags/v${PV}.tar.gz
+			-> ${P}.tar.gz
+	"
+fi
+
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64"
+
+# wrt blocker, may or may not cause problems if present with <560
+# drivers, and collides with <565.57.01-r2
+RDEPEND="
+	media-libs/mesa[gbm(+),${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
+	x11-libs/libX11[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
+	x11-libs/libdrm[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
+	x11-libs/libxcb:=[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
+	!<x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-565.57.01-r2
+"
+DEPEND="
+	${RDEPEND}
+	>=gui-libs/eglexternalplatform-1.2
+	media-libs/libglvnd
+	x11-base/xorg-proto
+"