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Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote on 30/06/06 13:55: |
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>> The stable branch xorg-x11 seems to have been upgraded to version |
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>> xorg-x11-7.0-r1. |
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> Just follow [1]. |
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>> However, emerge -puDNv world shows the new x11-xorg blocked by |
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>> xorg-x11-6.9. |
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>> I don't understand this, as I have xorg-x11-6.8.2-r8 installed. |
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> Read more carefully. It's blocked by '<=x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9'. Note the less |
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> than sign. |
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Oops, my mistake. |
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>> OK, the new meta-package may be very nice, but I really don't want to |
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>> compile all the drivers for devices I don't have on my system. At the |
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>> moment I use the proprietary nvidia drivers; are these supported under |
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>> xorg-x11-7.0? |
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> Then set VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" in /etc/make.conf. It's all covered in [1]. |
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> [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml |
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Bo, Dirk, thanks for the information. I'll get to work on this (major) |
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update. I'll add the nv driver to VIDEO_CARDS as well to have a fall |
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back in case the binary nvidia drivers won't work with the new x11. |
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Cheers, Dave |
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