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From: x3n <x3n@××××××××.eu>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] update world issue (oops)
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 22:43:56
Message-Id: 4488A5B3.8070805@molinier.eu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-desktop] update world issue (oops) by Chris Gianelloni
1 Chris Gianelloni a écrit :
2 > On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 22:51 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
3 >
4 >> On Thursday 08 June 2006 13:34, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
5 >>
6 >>
7 >>> Blockers occur because something changed in the tree. In this case,
8 >>> shadow now provides the functionality that pam-login once did, which is
9 >>> why shadow blocks pam-login.
10 >>>
11 >> Ok, what about nv and nvidia in xorg-x11 7.1? It looks as if I now have to
12 >> choose between the open-source nv and the proprietary nvidia in my
13 >> make.conf. I used to have both specified so that I could switch between the
14 >> two installed drivers, but if I leave both in, with VIDEO_CARDS="nv
15 >> nvidia", I get circular, blocking dependencies. Pro tem I just have nv in
16 >> there, but if I want to use the nvidia driver I'll have some fiddling to
17 >> do.
18 >>
19 >
20 > The NVIDIA binary drivers are not compatible with xorg-x11 7.1 and there
21 > are no compatible versions released yet. This is why the blocker is
22 > there.
23 >
24 > The nvidia drivers do not work with this version of xorg-x11.
25 >
26 >
27 Why have you unmask the xorg-x11 7.1 ebuild if neither NVIDIA, neither
28 ATI have released a driver compatible with this version ? I think that
29 today, there a lot and lot of users with nv or ati cards...
30 Perhaps you know when nvidia will released the new driver ?
31
32 best regard,
33
34 x3n
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Re: [gentoo-desktop] update world issue (oops) Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>