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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server upgrading problem
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:14:10
Message-Id: 20091109011353.3b02ac13@majikthise
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] xorg-server upgrading problem by Roy Wright
1 On Sun, 8 Nov 2009 18:46:15 -0600, Roy Wright wrote:
2
3 > Was at xorg-server-1.6.3 and current sync tried to upgrade to 1.7.1,
4 > which failed to compile. In researching on b.g.o., discovered that
5 > nvidia has not released a driver yet that will work with 1.7.1, so
6 > followed the bug report directions and masked out several packages to
7 > prevent 1.7.1 upgrading.
8
9 I have had xorg-server-1.7.1 and nvidia-drivers-190.42-r[23], working
10 together since Nov 3rd, with no masking or keywording, although this is
11 on ~amd64. For a while the newer xorg was blocked but as soon as the
12 newer nvidia-drivers hit portage, everything upgraded without a hitch.
13
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15 --
16 Neil Bothwick
17
18 Reality is an obstacle to hallucination.

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