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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server upgrading problem
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:37:28
Message-Id: hda21b$4gm$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server upgrading problem by Roy Wright
1 On 11/09/2009 11:18 PM, Roy Wright wrote:
2 >
3 > On Nov 9, 2009, at 1:04 AM, Johannes Kimmel wrote:
4 >> Try to resync and emerge the new eselect-opengl and run "eselect
5 >> opengl set nvidia" again. This could fix it, as I had a similar
6 >> problem. The old eselect did something wrong, but I can't remember
7 >> exactly because it went somehow long yesterday :)
8 >
9 > Good catch, but unfortunately it didn't help. I've downgraded the nvidia
10 > drivers to 185.18.36-r1 which then loaded glx, but still not dri or dri2.
11 >
12 > Maybe I need to upgrade the kernel from 2.6.29...
13 >
14 > BTW, xorg-server-1.6.5 does work with nv drivers, but I need opengl.
15 >
16 > I'm currently trying to downgrade server to 1.6.3, but that's not
17 > compiling. Let's say I'm not very impressed with the xorg ebuild
18 > technique of specifying dependencies using >=. xorg ebuilds should be
19 > holistic based on the xorg-server version. Instead I have to figure out
20 > the version masks for each of the dependencies. PITA!
21
22 I already posted how do downgrade to 1.6.5 correctly :P

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server upgrading problem Roy Wright <roy@××××××.org>
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server upgrading problem covici@××××××××××.com