Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with old nvidia-drivers-71.86.11 (depending x11-base/xorg-server vanished form portage-tree)

[Dale]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Monday 21 December 2009 18:48:25 Christian Könitzer wrote:
>
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I'm using a quite old NVIDIA card aqnd it worked well but since a few
>> days it seams to be deprecated. After a eix --sync I got this:
>> emerge -DuN world
>> Calculating dependencies... done!
>>
>> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "<x11-base/xorg-server-1.4.99".
>> (dependency required by "x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-71.86.11" [installed])
>> (dependency required by "world" [argument])
>>
>>
>> And eix tells me:
>>   eix x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
>> [D] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
>>       Available versions:  [M]71.86.09!s [M]71.86.11!s [m]96.43.13!s
>> [m](~)96.43.14!s [m]173.14.20!s [m](~)173.14.20-r1!s [m](~)173.14.22!s
>> [m]180.60!s [m]185.18.36!s [m](~)185.18.36-r1!s [m](~)190.29!s
>> [m](~)190.42-r2!s [m](~)190.42-r3!s {acpi custom-cflags gtk
>> kernel_FreeBSD kernel_linux multilib userland_BSD}
>>       Installed versions:  71.86.11!s(10:52:39 23.10.2009)(acpi gtk
>> kernel_linux -custom-cflags -kernel_FreeBSD -multilib -userland_BSD)
>>       Homepage:            http://www.nvidia.com/
>>       Description:         NVIDIA X11 driver and GLX libraries
>>
>
> Your version of nvidia-drivers is listed as hardmasked in
> profiles/package.mask:
>
> # Mask nvidia-drivers-71.x.y since it will not work
> # with xorg-server-1.5 and later which are the only
> # available versions in the tree
> <x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-72.0.0
>
> You will need to find an ebuild for the version of xorg you need in an overlay
> somewhere, or search the gentoo attic
>
> You'll have to google for the URL for the attic, it's one of those things I
> can never remember...
>
>

Is this it?

http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/

Dale

:-)  :-)