Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Daiajo Tibdixious <daiajo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64 <gentoo-amd64@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: ATI driver conflict with xorg-server
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2016 09:31:40
Message-Id: CAC4mkfvFB+fqW6SK4hJm-gVYogCvqHCqnFR7jJ2iy4HJWeP5gA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] ATI driver conflict with xorg-server by Daiajo Tibdixious
1 Well with stable versions of the 2 xf86 packages xorg-server & ati-drivers
2 X does not start saying fglrx module is not found.
3
4 I modprobe fglrx & tried again with same error. Sorry can't send actual
5 errors as can't load email, stuck in console mode.
6
7 On 6 Oct 2016 3:57 pm, "Daiajo Tibdixious" <daiajo@×××××.com> wrote:
8
9 > Doing this on phone as chromium update still going (in console mode).
10 >
11 > Ati-drivers-15.12-r1 requires xorg-server-1.17.4 or less, yet world update
12 > insists on pulling in xorg-server-1.8 which then pulls in masked versions
13 > of xf86-input-evdev & xf86-video-ati & and the emerge dies because the 2
14 > versions of xorg-server can't co-exist.
15 >
16 > I want ati-drivers as my led screen does not look good with basic radeon
17 > driver.
18 >
19 > I am wondering why masked versions are being pulled in as nothing in
20 > package.accept_keywords nor package.unmask
21 >
22 > In world I just have xorg-x11 meta package. I'm wondering if I should
23 > replace that with specific packages. The ebuild does not suggest its
24 > pulling in the 1.8 version, but I may be miss-reading it.
25 >
26 > I have manually installed the latest stable versions of the affected
27 > packages & expect it to work.
28 >