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From: "Christian Könitzer" <chkab@×××.ch>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Problem with old nvidia-drivers-71.86.11 (depending x11-base/xorg-server vanished form portage-tree)
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:10:03
Message-Id: 4B2FA6D9.90903@gmx.ch
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [lame logrotate Q] by Alan McKinnon
1 Hi list,
2
3 I'm using a quite old NVIDIA card aqnd it worked well but since a few
4 days it seams to be deprecated. After a eix --sync I got this:
5 emerge -DuN world
6 Calculating dependencies... done!
7
8 emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "<x11-base/xorg-server-1.4.99".
9 (dependency required by "x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-71.86.11" [installed])
10 (dependency required by "world" [argument])
11
12
13 And eix tells me:
14 eix x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
15 [D] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
16 Available versions: [M]71.86.09!s [M]71.86.11!s [m]96.43.13!s
17 [m](~)96.43.14!s [m]173.14.20!s [m](~)173.14.20-r1!s [m](~)173.14.22!s
18 [m]180.60!s [m]185.18.36!s [m](~)185.18.36-r1!s [m](~)190.29!s
19 [m](~)190.42-r2!s [m](~)190.42-r3!s {acpi custom-cflags gtk
20 kernel_FreeBSD kernel_linux multilib userland_BSD}
21 Installed versions: 71.86.11!s(10:52:39 23.10.2009)(acpi gtk
22 kernel_linux -custom-cflags -kernel_FreeBSD -multilib -userland_BSD)
23 Homepage: http://www.nvidia.com/
24 Description: NVIDIA X11 driver and GLX libraries
25
26 and:
27 eix x11-base/xorg-server
28 [I] x11-base/xorg-server
29 Available versions: 1.5.3-r6 1.6.3.901-r2 1.6.5-r1 ~1.7.3
30 ~1.7.3.901 ~1.7.3.901-r1 {3dfx debug dmx hal input_devices_acecad
31 input_devices_aiptek input_devices_citron input_devices_elographics
32 input_devices_evdev input_devices_fpit input_devices_hyperpen
33 input_devices_joystick input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse
34 input_devices_mutouch input_devices_penmount input_devices_synaptics
35 input_devices_tslib input_devices_virtualbox input_devices_vmmouse
36 input_devices_void input_devices_wacom ipv6 kdrive minimal nptl sdl
37 tslib video_cards_apm video_cards_ark video_cards_ast video_cards_chips
38 video_cards_cirrus video_cards_dummy video_cards_epson video_cards_fbdev
39 video_cards_geode video_cards_glint video_cards_i128 video_cards_i740
40 video_cards_impact video_cards_intel video_cards_mach64 video_cards_mga
41 video_cards_neomagic video_cards_newport video_cards_nv
42 video_cards_nvidia video_cards_r128 video_cards_radeon
43 video_cards_radeonhd video_cards_rendition video_cards_s3
44 video_cards_s3virge video_cards_savage video_cards_siliconmotion
45 video_cards_sis video_cards_sisusb video_cards_sunbw2
46 video_cards_suncg14 video_cards_suncg3 video_cards_suncg6
47 video_cards_sunffb video_cards_sunleo video_cards_suntcx
48 video_cards_tdfx video_cards_tga video_cards_trident video_cards_tseng
49 video_cards_v4l video_cards_vesa video_cards_via video_cards_virtualbox
50 video_cards_vmware video_cards_voodoo video_cards_xgi xorg}
51 Installed versions: 1.6.5-r1(09:35:40 12.12.2009)(hal nptl sdl
52 xorg -debug -dmx -ipv6 -kdrive -minimal -tslib)
53 Homepage: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/
54 Description: X.Org X servers
55
56
57 As descriped by the user guid I'm not doing wrong:
58 http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml
59
60 In /etc/portage/package.mask i added:
61 ...
62 >=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.28
63 >=sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.13
64 >=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-87.00
65 ...
66
67 In /etc/portage/package.keywords I added:
68 ...
69 x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers ~x86
70 ...
71
72 So for me it looks like the xorg server which is required by my
73 nvidia-card (x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-71.86.11) isn't longer in the
74 portage-tree...
75
76 Don't know what to do now - do I need to buy a newer graphiccard? :O ;)
77 Hopefully not...
78 cheers Chris

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