Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Markku Kaukinen <Markku.Kaukinen@×××.fi>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: X.Org troubles
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:10:46
Message-Id: 1167923248.13098.5.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: X.Org troubles by Ferris McCormick
1 On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 14:51 +0000, Ferris McCormick wrote:
2
3 > For your information, nvidia-drivers-1.0.8776 and xorg-server-1.0.2-r7
4 > are compatible; -1.0.8776 and the xorg-server-1.1.1 series are not.
5 > Reason is changes in xorg-server, and if you try the combination
6 > -1.0.8776 and -1.1.1, you should not get anywhere at all: it flat out
7 > won't work. I don't know off hand what xorg-server version the
8 > nvidia-drivers-1.0.9xxx need. The ebuilds will let you build an
9 > incompatible pairing.
10 >
11
12 Are you sure, I think it was version prior 1.0.8776 that had problems with
13 xorg 1.1.1.
14
15 At least this is what I have and absolutely no problems:
16
17 #emerge --search nvidia-drivers xorg-server
18 Searching...
19 [ Results for search key : nvidia-drivers ]
20 [ Applications found : 1 ]
21
22 * x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
23 Latest version available: 1.0.8776
24 Latest version installed: 1.0.8776
25 Size of files: 25,303 kB
26 Homepage: http://www.nvidia.com/
27 Description: NVIDIA X11 driver and GLX libraries
28 License: NVIDIA
29
30
31 Searching...
32 [ Results for search key : xorg-server ]
33 [ Applications found : 1 ]
34
35 * x11-base/xorg-server
36 Latest version available: 1.1.1-r1
37 Latest version installed: 1.1.1-r1
38 Size of files: 9,170 kB
39 Homepage: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/
40 Description: X.Org X servers
41 License: xorg-server MIT
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45 -- Markku
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: X.Org troubles Ferris McCormick <fmccor@g.o>