Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with old nvidia-drivers-71.86.11 (depending x11-base/xorg-server vanished form portage-tree)

[Alan McKinnon]

On Monday 21 December 2009 18:48:25 Christian Könitzer wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I'm using a quite old NVIDIA card aqnd it worked well but since a few
> days it seams to be deprecated. After a eix --sync I got this:
> emerge -DuN world
> Calculating dependencies... done!
>
> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "<x11-base/xorg-server-1.4.99".
> (dependency required by "x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-71.86.11" [installed])
> (dependency required by "world" [argument])
>
>
> And eix tells me:
>   eix x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
> [D] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
>       Available versions:  [M]71.86.09!s [M]71.86.11!s [m]96.43.13!s
> [m](~)96.43.14!s [m]173.14.20!s [m](~)173.14.20-r1!s [m](~)173.14.22!s
> [m]180.60!s [m]185.18.36!s [m](~)185.18.36-r1!s [m](~)190.29!s
> [m](~)190.42-r2!s [m](~)190.42-r3!s {acpi custom-cflags gtk
> kernel_FreeBSD kernel_linux multilib userland_BSD}
>       Installed versions:  71.86.11!s(10:52:39 23.10.2009)(acpi gtk
> kernel_linux -custom-cflags -kernel_FreeBSD -multilib -userland_BSD)
>       Homepage:            http://www.nvidia.com/
>       Description:         NVIDIA X11 driver and GLX libraries

Your version of nvidia-drivers is listed as hardmasked in 
profiles/package.mask:

# Mask nvidia-drivers-71.x.y since it will not work
# with xorg-server-1.5 and later which are the only
# available versions in the tree
<x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-72.0.0

You will need to find an ebuild for the version of xorg you need in an overlay 
somewhere, or search the gentoo attic

You'll have to google for the URL for the attic, it's one of those things I 
can never remember...

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com