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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How do you handle new Xorg + nvidia + ~x86?
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:46:00
Message-Id: 200709111228.24243.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How do you handle new Xorg + nvidia + ~x86? by "Jesús Guerrero"
1 On Dienstag, 11. September 2007, Jesús Guerrero wrote:
2 > On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 03:36:13 +0200
3 >
4 > Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de> wrote:
5 > > On Dienstag, 11. September 2007, Roy Wright wrote:
6 > > > Howdy,
7 > > >
8 > > > Well, I had to local mask
9 > > >
10 > > > =x11-base/xorg-server-1.4-r1
11 > > > =x11-base/xorg-server-1.4
12 > > > =x11-base/xorg-x11-7.3
13 > > >
14 > > > today to keep portage from blocking. My guess
15 > > > is that eventually a new version of nvidia-drivers
16 > > > will be available and a new revision of xorg-server
17 > > > will arrive that will support it (no longer block all
18 > > > versions of nvidia-drivers).
19 > > >
20 > > > Until that time will probably just keep masking
21 > > > xorg-server and hope I remember to unmask
22 > > > xorg-x11 at that time.
23 > > >
24 > > > This seems inelegant. So I'm hoping someone
25 > > > has a better approach.
26 >
27 > The really inelegant solution would be not to have the blocker.
28 > Most people would just update without looking even at the
29 > emerge -puDvN world output, and them complain on a huge and
30 > useless thread on the forums, because something broke :P
31 >
32 > If you have the blocker, you can't screw up the thing. Blockers
33 > are the only solution for incompatible packages, and the new xorg
34 > version is incompatible with all the nvidia-drivers version. In
35 > fact, no future version of xorg will fix this, since it is completely
36 >
37 > nvidia-side. So, I would change your snipped above by this one:
38 > >=x11-base/xorg-server-1.4-r1
39 > >=x11-base/xorg-server-1.4
40 > >=x11-base/xorg-x11-7.3
41 >
42 > Note, the '>=' in front of the packages, those are not quotations
43 > starting with '>', but '>=', because any new version will have the
44 > same problem (since as I said, the problem is in the drivers, that
45 > are just outdated).
46 >
47 > If you have to incompatible packages, you need to decide what
48 > your priority is, period. There is no way around that, until
49 > nvidia decides to release a new version that is compatible with
50 > the new abi.
51 >
52 > > remove the blocker? the current nvidia-drivers work fine, if you
53 > > add -ignoreAbi to your X-start script (like kdm conf).
54 >
55 > So the nvidia people say. Though I can confirm that in my installation
56 > it doesn't work. It just lockups (and yes, I am sure that X composite
57 > was off, because I always have it off).
58
59 and I can confirm, that it works very well. With composite turned on. ut2004
60 and vegastrike-svn. Without lockups.
61
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