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From: Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <please.no.spam.here@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] excess x11 drivers
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:09:47
Message-Id: 38af3d670811160809s7e2b9355k6d67e0d10237648@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] excess x11 drivers by Dirk Heinrichs
1 On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Dirk Heinrichs
2 <dirk.heinrichs@××××××.de> wrote:
3 > Am Sonntag, 16. November 2008 16:12:58 schrieb Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto:
4 >> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
5 >>
6 >> <please.no.spam.here@×××××.com> wrote:
7 >> > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com> wrote:
8 >> >> I posted some output in anther thread concerning update world
9 >> >> (Subject: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem)
10 >> >>
11 >> >> Someone noticed I had too many x11 drivers installed and suggested I
12 >> >> set the /etc/make.conf VIDEO_CARDS variable (which I never have set
13 >> >> before)
14 >> >>
15 >> >> I figured out I have an nvidia card so set VIDEO_CARDS="nv"
16 >> >
17 >> > Could you please post your entire make.conf?
18 >>
19 >> While we are at it, could you please post emerge --info?
20 >
21 > Just courious: What exactly do you want with all this information? IMHO, the
22 > only usefull information comes from lspci and eventually an X11 log file.
23
24 I am not only concerned about the problem reported in this thread; I
25 also want to give opinion on his larger "update a very outdated
26 system" task.
27
28 --
29 Software is like sex: it is better when it is free - Linus Torvalds

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[gentoo-user] Re: excess x11 drivers Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com>