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| From: | Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server upgrading problem | ||
| Date: | Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:02:21 | ||
| Message-Id: | hd7plj$efs$1@ger.gmane.org | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-user] xorg-server upgrading problem by Roy Wright |
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| 1 | On 11/09/2009 02:46 AM, Roy Wright wrote: |
| 2 | > Howdy, |
| 3 | > |
| 4 | > I have a home server/htpc (~x86) that I'm finally updating after a few |
| 5 | > months and I hit an issue with xorg-server. Here's the background: |
| 6 | > |
| 7 | > Was at xorg-server-1.6.3 and current sync tried to upgrade to 1.7.1, |
| 8 | > which failed to compile. In researching on b.g.o., discovered that |
| 9 | > nvidia has not released a driver yet that will work with 1.7.1, so |
| 10 | > followed the bug report directions and masked out several packages to |
| 11 | > prevent 1.7.1 upgrading. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | I think the bug about ati-drivers should help: |
| 14 | |
| 15 | http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290739 |
| 16 | |
| 17 | From that bug, follow those two comments *exactly*: |
| 18 | |
| 19 | http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290739#c3 |
| 20 | http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290739#c6 |
| 21 | |
| 22 | This should get you to a correctly installed 1.6.5 again. |