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From: "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@××××.dk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 upgrade
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 12:07:19
Message-Id: 200606301355.09044.bo.andresen@zlin.dk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 upgrade by Dave Jones
1 On Friday 30 June 2006 13:39, Dave Jones wrote:
2 > The stable branch xorg-x11 seems to have been upgraded to version
3 > xorg-x11-7.0-r1.
4
5 Just follow [1].
6
7 > However, emerge -puDNv world shows the new x11-xorg blocked by
8 > xorg-x11-6.9.
9 >
10 > I don't understand this, as I have xorg-x11-6.8.2-r8 installed.
11
12 Read more carefully. It's blocked by '<=x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9'. Note the less
13 than sign.
14
15 > OK, the new meta-package may be very nice, but I really don't want to
16 > compile all the drivers for devices I don't have on my system. At the
17 > moment I use the proprietary nvidia drivers; are these supported under
18 > xorg-x11-7.0?
19
20 Then set VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" in /etc/make.conf. It's all covered in [1].
21
22 [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml
23
24 --
25 Bo Andresen

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