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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 01:51:53
Message-Id: 200709110336.13799.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] How do you handle new Xorg + nvidia + ~x86? by Roy Wright
1 On Dienstag, 11. September 2007, Roy Wright wrote:
2 > Howdy,
3 >
4 > Well, I had to local mask
5 >
6 > =x11-base/xorg-server-1.4-r1
7 > =x11-base/xorg-server-1.4
8 > =x11-base/xorg-x11-7.3
9 >
10 > today to keep portage from blocking. My guess
11 > is that eventually a new version of nvidia-drivers
12 > will be available and a new revision of xorg-server
13 > will arrive that will support it (no longer block all
14 > versions of nvidia-drivers).
15 >
16 > Until that time will probably just keep masking
17 > xorg-server and hope I remember to unmask
18 > xorg-x11 at that time.
19 >
20 > This seems inelegant. So I'm hoping someone
21 > has a better approach.
22 >
23 >
24 > TIA,
25 > Roy
26
27 remove the blocker? the current nvidia-drivers work fine, if you
28 add -ignoreAbi to your X-start script (like kdm conf).
29 --
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Re: [gentoo-user] How do you handle new Xorg + nvidia + ~x86? Roy Wright <royw@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] How do you handle new Xorg + nvidia + ~x86? "Jesús Guerrero" <i92guboj@×××××.es>