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From: Roy Wright <roy@××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server upgrading problem
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:20:30
Message-Id: 76F13A6C-0FE9-4B3A-9600-0617EF3A6378@wright.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server upgrading problem by Johannes Kimmel
1 On Nov 9, 2009, at 1:04 AM, Johannes Kimmel wrote:
2 > Try to resync and emerge the new eselect-opengl and run "eselect
3 > opengl set nvidia" again. This could fix it, as I had a similar
4 > problem. The old eselect did something wrong, but I can't remember
5 > exactly because it went somehow long yesterday :)
6
7 Good catch, but unfortunately it didn't help. I've downgraded the
8 nvidia drivers to 185.18.36-r1 which then loaded glx, but still not
9 dri or dri2.
10
11 Maybe I need to upgrade the kernel from 2.6.29...
12
13 BTW, xorg-server-1.6.5 does work with nv drivers, but I need opengl.
14
15 I'm currently trying to downgrade server to 1.6.3, but that's not
16 compiling. Let's say I'm not very impressed with the xorg ebuild
17 technique of specifying dependencies using >=. xorg ebuilds should be
18 holistic based on the xorg-server version. Instead I have to figure
19 out the version masks for each of the dependencies. PITA!
20
21 Thank you,
22 Roy

Replies

Subject Author
[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server upgrading problem Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server upgrading problem Johannes Kimmel <johannes.kimmel@×××.de>