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From: Roy Wright <royw@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] How do you handle new Xorg + nvidia + ~x86?
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:43:48
Message-Id: 46E5E1CD.4090604@cisco.com
1 Howdy,
2
3 Well, I had to local mask
4
5 =x11-base/xorg-server-1.4-r1
6 =x11-base/xorg-server-1.4
7 =x11-base/xorg-x11-7.3
8
9 today to keep portage from blocking. My guess
10 is that eventually a new version of nvidia-drivers
11 will be available and a new revision of xorg-server
12 will arrive that will support it (no longer block all
13 versions of nvidia-drivers).
14
15 Until that time will probably just keep masking
16 xorg-server and hope I remember to unmask
17 xorg-x11 at that time.
18
19 This seems inelegant. So I'm hoping someone
20 has a better approach.
21
22
23 TIA,
24 Roy
25
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Re: [gentoo-user] How do you handle new Xorg + nvidia + ~x86? Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de>
Re: [gentoo-user] How do you handle new Xorg + nvidia + ~x86? Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>