Re: [gentoo-user] xgl, masked packages, and me going crazy ()

[Daniel Iliev]

On Sat, Þëè 1, 2006 10:10 pm, Bo Ã�rsted Andresen wrote:
> On Saturday 01 July 2006 21:00, Daniel Iliev wrote:
>> Will this mask work for nvidia cards too?
>
> You really need to learn how to explain a question clearly... The libdrm
> package in an overlay had no keywords. OP wanted to use it. That has nothing
> to do with any particular graphics card... If you experience that any package
> is masked by missing keyword then you can add '-* ~*' keywords to the
> acceptable keywords for that package in /etc/portage/package.keywords. But
> since masked by missing keyword means that the package is literally untested
> on your arch it also means that noone can tell you if it will work as in
> compile and be functional. It will just tell portage to portage that it is
> okay to emerge it...
>
> --
> Bo Andresen
>

First, thanks for the reply. I didn't know what "masked by missing keyword" means.

Second, you're right about the the lack of clarity in my question. I'm sorry about
that.

Please, let me try to explain what I had in mind.

===correct me if I'm wrong===
I think Nvidia cards do not work with DRI as all other cards, but they use their own
glx and kernel drivers for direct rendering. So direct rendering manager [DRM]
doesn't apply to NVidia's closed source drivers.
===correct me if I'm wrong===

I want to emerge Xgl even it's considered to be unstable. So in this context my
question was "(1) will unmasking libdrm break something, kick my dog...etc :) if
merged together with nvidia's binary drivers and (2) is unmasking libdrm enough to
install Xgl?"

I really want to install Xgl very much. No matter if it is  unstable or if it has
bugs. Please, help me.

-- 
Best regards,
Daniel

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