Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Willie Matthews <matthews.willie@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] older machine and video packages
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:59:55
Message-Id: 20120214175728.7c5009cc@mini
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] older machine and video packages by Dale
1 On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:37:05 -0600
2 Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > Howdy,
5 >
6 > On my older x86 machine, I get this when trying to update:
7 >
8 > WARNING: One or more updates have been skipped due to a dependency
9 > conflict:
10 >
11 > x11-base/xorg-server:0
12 >
13 > (x11-base/xorg-server-1.11.2-r2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
14 > conflicts with
15 > <x11-base/xorg-server-1.11 required by
16 > (x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.31::gentoo, installed)
17 >
18 >
19 > I thought maybe I needed to unmask or remove the keyword at first so I
20 > wanted to see what version I could fiddle with to get this to work.
21 > So, I get this:
22 >
23 > root@smoker / # equery list -p x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
24 > * Searching for nvidia-drivers in x11-drivers ...
25 > [-P-] [ ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-96.43.20:0
26 > [IP-] [ ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.31:0
27 > [-P-] [M ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-275.09.07:0
28 > [-P-] [M~] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-275.28:0
29 > [-P-] [M~] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-275.36:0
30 > [-P-] [M ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-285.05.09-r1:0
31 > [-P-] [M~] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-290.06:0
32 > [-P-] [M ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-290.10:0
33 > [-P-] [M~] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-290.10-r1:0
34 > root@smoker / # equery list -p x11-base/xorg-server
35 > * Searching for xorg-server in x11-base ...
36 > [-P-] [ ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.9.5-r1:0
37 > [IP-] [ ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.10.4-r1:0
38 > [-P-] [ ~] x11-base/xorg-server-1.11.2-r1:0
39 > [-P-] [ ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.11.2-r2:0
40 > [-P-] [ ~] x11-base/xorg-server-1.11.3:0
41 > [-P-] [ ~] x11-base/xorg-server-1.11.4:0
42 > [-P-] [M~] x11-base/xorg-server-1.11.99.902:0
43 > root@smoker / #
44 >
45 >
46 > So, the nvidia driver I am using is the only version for my card.
47 > But I can't upgrade xorg either. Well, I think this may be a bug or
48 > something. What does the list think? Is there a way around this?
49 >
50 > Thanks much.
51 >
52 > Dale
53 >
54 > :-) :-)
55 >
56 > P. S. That time of year. May be a bit before I get to read replies.
57 >
58
59 Same issue with an 8400GS. I played with it and couldn't get it to work
60 at all together. I think I uninstalled the nVidia driver upgraded and
61 tried to reinstall the nVidia driver. No luck. Wouldn't recognize the
62 card properly! Been awhile but I think that was it!
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68 Willie Matthews
69 matthews.willie@×××××.com