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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg & nvidia (again) ;-(
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:52:07
Message-Id: 20060627123937.37ca4ab0@hactar.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] xorg & nvidia (again) ;-( by Daniel Iliev
1 On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:18:28 +0300 (EEST), Daniel Iliev wrote:
2
3 > I believe 7.0.* is the right version for my case. I've tried to put the
4 > mask shown on the official Gentoo site about "migrating to mudular X".
5 > Unfortunately for me that mask pulls version 7.1. Then I put "<=7.1" in
6 > package.mask which led to lots of unresolved deps. After playing with
7 > masks & versions the whole weekend I gave up ;-(
8
9 You don't need anything in package.mask to run Xorg 7, you just need to
10 keyword the various packages as ~x86 in /etc/portage/package.keywords.
11 Then you need to add some of the 7.1 packages to
12 /etc/portage/package.mask to prevent the conflict with the nvidia stuff.
13 My package.mask file contains
14
15 >~x11-base/xorg-server-1.1.0
16 >=x11-base/xorg-x11-7.1
17 >=x11-drivers/xf86-video-vga-4.1.0
18 >=x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard-1.1.0
19 >=x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard-1.1.0
20 >=x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse-1.1.1
21 >=x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv-1.1.2
22
23
24 --
25 Neil Bothwick
26
27 A TRUE Klingon warrior does not comment his code!

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