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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] excess x11 drivers
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:39:24
Message-Id: 491F6B92.3010903@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] excess x11 drivers by Harry Putnam
1 Harry Putnam wrote:
2 > I posted some output in anther thread concerning update world
3 > (Subject: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem)
4 >
5 > Someone noticed I had too many x11 drivers installed and suggested I
6 > set the /etc/make.conf VIDEO_CARDS variable (which I never have set
7 > before)
8 >
9 > I figured out I have an nvidia card so set VIDEO_CARDS="nv"
10 >
11 > Now with my emerge -vuDN @system @world complete I'm unable to start
12 > X. (More on that later in a separate thread)
13 >
14 > << SNIP >>
15 >
16 > Whats all that for?
17 >
18 > Checking dependancies on a few I see:
19 >
20 > dep -l x11-drivers/xf86-video-voodoo:
21 > ! x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9
22 >
23 > on all I checked.
24 >
25 > What can this mean?
26 >
27 >
28 >
29 >
30 >
31 >
32
33 Give this a shot:
34
35 VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
36
37 You can do a emerge -p xorg-x11 to see which ones are available. It's
38 lists them for you, also lists the USE flags too.
39
40 Dale
41
42 :-) :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] excess x11 drivers Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <please.no.spam.here@×××××.com>