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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] older machine and video packages
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:38:20
Message-Id: 4F3B0C41.2060500@gmail.com
1 Howdy,
2
3 On my older x86 machine, I get this when trying to update:
4
5 WARNING: One or more updates have been skipped due to a dependency conflict:
6
7 x11-base/xorg-server:0
8
9 (x11-base/xorg-server-1.11.2-r2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
10 conflicts with
11 <x11-base/xorg-server-1.11 required by
12 (x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.31::gentoo, installed)
13
14
15 I thought maybe I needed to unmask or remove the keyword at first so I
16 wanted to see what version I could fiddle with to get this to work. So,
17 I get this:
18
19 root@smoker / # equery list -p x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
20 * Searching for nvidia-drivers in x11-drivers ...
21 [-P-] [ ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-96.43.20:0
22 [IP-] [ ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.31:0
23 [-P-] [M ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-275.09.07:0
24 [-P-] [M~] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-275.28:0
25 [-P-] [M~] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-275.36:0
26 [-P-] [M ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-285.05.09-r1:0
27 [-P-] [M~] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-290.06:0
28 [-P-] [M ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-290.10:0
29 [-P-] [M~] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-290.10-r1:0
30 root@smoker / # equery list -p x11-base/xorg-server
31 * Searching for xorg-server in x11-base ...
32 [-P-] [ ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.9.5-r1:0
33 [IP-] [ ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.10.4-r1:0
34 [-P-] [ ~] x11-base/xorg-server-1.11.2-r1:0
35 [-P-] [ ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.11.2-r2:0
36 [-P-] [ ~] x11-base/xorg-server-1.11.3:0
37 [-P-] [ ~] x11-base/xorg-server-1.11.4:0
38 [-P-] [M~] x11-base/xorg-server-1.11.99.902:0
39 root@smoker / #
40
41
42 So, the nvidia driver I am using is the only version for my card. But I
43 can't upgrade xorg either. Well, I think this may be a bug or
44 something. What does the list think? Is there a way around this?
45
46 Thanks much.
47
48 Dale
49
50 :-) :-)
51
52 P. S. That time of year. May be a bit before I get to read replies.
53
54 --
55 I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or
56 how you interpreted my words!
57
58 Miss the compile output? Hint:
59 EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] older machine and video packages Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@×××.de>
Re: [gentoo-user] older machine and video packages Willie Matthews <matthews.willie@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] older machine and video packages "mike@×××××××.us" <mike@×××××××.us>