On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 23:58 -0700, Steve Herber wrote:
> My nvidia based graphics system was working great until the recent X 
> upgrade.  During one of my recent package upgrades I ran afoul of the
> abi problem.  And now I can't hit the right combination of masks and 
> package removals to get back to my working state.  Could someone tell
> me which packages I need to mask to restore the last working nvidia
> based X package set?
> 
> Thank you.  [composed in console mode, longing for graphics again.]
> 
> Steve Herber
> herber@...
Here is a working combination (for me), assuming modular-X:
nvidia-[glx,kernel]-1.0.8762
x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.2-r7
x11-base/xorg-x11-7.0-r1
virtual/x11-7.0-r2

Notice that nvidia-glx-1.0.8762 contains an explicit RDEPEND for
!>=x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.99
and the combination nvidia-glx-<anything> and xorg-server-1.1.<anything>
will fail.  With -1.1, the server/driver interface changed, and last I
knew, the nvidia driver has not caught up.  Notice also that after
installing xorg-server, you might have to
eselect opengl set nvidia
by hand (I do, but haven't bothered tracking down why).

If you are running xorg-x11-6.8.2-r8, none of this applies, and you will
need information from someone else.

Hope this helps,
Regards,
Ferris
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Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o>
Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc)