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On Dienstag, 11. September 2007, Jesús Guerrero wrote: |
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> On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 03:36:13 +0200 |
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> Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> > On Dienstag, 11. September 2007, Roy Wright wrote: |
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> > > Howdy, |
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> > > |
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> > > Well, I had to local mask |
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> > > |
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> > > =x11-base/xorg-server-1.4-r1 |
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> > > =x11-base/xorg-server-1.4 |
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> > > =x11-base/xorg-x11-7.3 |
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> > > |
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> > > today to keep portage from blocking. My guess |
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> > > is that eventually a new version of nvidia-drivers |
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> > > will be available and a new revision of xorg-server |
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> > > will arrive that will support it (no longer block all |
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> > > versions of nvidia-drivers). |
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> > > |
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> > > Until that time will probably just keep masking |
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> > > xorg-server and hope I remember to unmask |
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> > > xorg-x11 at that time. |
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> > > |
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> > > This seems inelegant. So I'm hoping someone |
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> > > has a better approach. |
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> The really inelegant solution would be not to have the blocker. |
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> Most people would just update without looking even at the |
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> emerge -puDvN world output, and them complain on a huge and |
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> useless thread on the forums, because something broke :P |
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> |
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> If you have the blocker, you can't screw up the thing. Blockers |
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> are the only solution for incompatible packages, and the new xorg |
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> version is incompatible with all the nvidia-drivers version. In |
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> fact, no future version of xorg will fix this, since it is completely |
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> nvidia-side. So, I would change your snipped above by this one: |
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> >=x11-base/xorg-server-1.4-r1 |
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> >=x11-base/xorg-server-1.4 |
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> >=x11-base/xorg-x11-7.3 |
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> Note, the '>=' in front of the packages, those are not quotations |
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> starting with '>', but '>=', because any new version will have the |
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> same problem (since as I said, the problem is in the drivers, that |
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> are just outdated). |
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> If you have to incompatible packages, you need to decide what |
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> your priority is, period. There is no way around that, until |
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> nvidia decides to release a new version that is compatible with |
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> the new abi. |
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> |
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> > remove the blocker? the current nvidia-drivers work fine, if you |
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> > add -ignoreAbi to your X-start script (like kdm conf). |
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> So the nvidia people say. Though I can confirm that in my installation |
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> it doesn't work. It just lockups (and yes, I am sure that X composite |
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> was off, because I always have it off). |
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and I can confirm, that it works very well. With composite turned on. ut2004 |
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and vegastrike-svn. Without lockups. |
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