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From: Roy Wright <roy@××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server upgrading problem
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:22:24
Message-Id: 88D2421E-1A0A-4768-AA7F-CD8DC50F61AD@wright.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server upgrading problem by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On Nov 9, 2009, at 3:36 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2
3 > On 11/09/2009 11:18 PM, Roy Wright wrote:
4 >>
5 >> On Nov 9, 2009, at 1:04 AM, Johannes Kimmel wrote:
6 >>> Try to resync and emerge the new eselect-opengl and run "eselect
7 >>> opengl set nvidia" again. This could fix it, as I had a similar
8 >>> problem. The old eselect did something wrong, but I can't remember
9 >>> exactly because it went somehow long yesterday :)
10 >>
11 >> Good catch, but unfortunately it didn't help. I've downgraded the
12 >> nvidia
13 >> drivers to 185.18.36-r1 which then loaded glx, but still not dri or
14 >> dri2.
15 >>
16 >> Maybe I need to upgrade the kernel from 2.6.29...
17 >>
18 >> BTW, xorg-server-1.6.5 does work with nv drivers, but I need opengl.
19 >>
20 >> I'm currently trying to downgrade server to 1.6.3, but that's not
21 >> compiling. Let's say I'm not very impressed with the xorg ebuild
22 >> technique of specifying dependencies using >=. xorg ebuilds should be
23 >> holistic based on the xorg-server version. Instead I have to figure
24 >> out
25 >> the version masks for each of the dependencies. PITA!
26 >
27 > I already posted how do downgrade to 1.6.5 correctly :P
28 >
29 >
30
31 Sorry, forgot to mention that I did try those instructions. Didn't
32 help.
33
34 I'm currently punting, removing all of X from my system, then will
35 start over...
36
37 Thank you,
38 Roy

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