From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IVaoo-0004po-5f for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:36:22 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l8CMQZou004741; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:26:35 GMT Received: from poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.21]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l8CMQYV6004726 for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:26:34 GMT Received: from poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id C36352089AC for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:26:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B47A62089A9 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:26:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: from energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de (account wevah [139.174.197.94] verified) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.12) with ESMTPSA id 26050170 for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:26:33 +0200 From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] nvidia-drivers is bloking xorg-server Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:26:31 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <1189631587.11096.4.camel@gentoo> <29c147bd0709121434i7dd3ba57ie6e5f25039d50cd5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <29c147bd0709121434i7dd3ba57ie6e5f25039d50cd5@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200709130026.31665.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V5.3 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: 7d7575c5-b677-4249-b244-4b739dc183ed X-Archives-Hash: 8dbb3e4d9c1c5cf62e144cbc7e271164 On Mittwoch, 12. September 2007, Lorenzo Milesi wrote: > On 9/12/07, agtdino wrote: > > [blocks B ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers (is blocking > > x11-base/xorg-server-1.4-r1) > > Xorg 1.4 introduced ABI changes. No proprietary driver can actually > work with the latest xorg. yes they can, as you say yourself below. > > > Actually I can run X with the nvidia-driver, don't want to update if I > > loose the X graphics. > > either you mask xorg 1.4 or in the meantime drop nvidia-drivers in > favor of xf86-video-nv. or you remove the blocker from the ebuilds. > > Eventually you can even run startx with --ignore-ABI, but then you > should modify the xorg ebuild in order to allow nvidia-drivers :) and build X without hal support. If you use kdm, edit kdmrc ServerCmd=/usr/bin/X -br -ignoreABI -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list