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Richard Bradfield wrote: |
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> On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 11:24:24PM -0800, Matt Turner wrote: |
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>> Very few if any users. They break occasionally with new xserver |
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>> versions, and then I have to do the leg work to fix them, make the |
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>> upstream releases, and then push them into Gentoo. Again, for between |
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>> zero and one person to use. |
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>> ... |
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>> x11-drivers/xf86-video-modesetting |
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> I guess I should put my hand up and admit to being "the one user" for |
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> this driver. I've got an ancient netbook with an Intel GMA3600, for |
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> which there is no accelerated Xorg driver, which means I'm stuck with |
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> xf86-video-modesetting. |
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> Obviously not asking you to keep putting in effort just for me, so what |
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> are my next steps if this package is masked and I later need to update? |
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Seems that "one" just doubled. |
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root@fireball / # equery list x11-drivers/xf86* |
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* Searching for xf86* in x11-drivers ... |
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[IP-] [ ] x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.10.5:0 |
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[IP-] [ ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa-2.3.4:0 |
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root@fireball / # equery d x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev |
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x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa |
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* These packages depend on x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev: |
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kde-plasma/plasma-desktop-5.11.3 (mouse ? x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev) |
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x11-base/xorg-drivers-1.19 (input_devices_evdev ? |
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x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev) |
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* These packages depend on x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa: |
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x11-base/xorg-drivers-1.19 (video_cards_vesa ? x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa) |
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root@fireball / # |
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What will change without it, not sure. :/ |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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