From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GZo5V-0001T2-0a for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:30:29 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9HCQ8uO030242; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:26:08 GMT Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za (sqlprd.sybase.co.za [192.96.139.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9HCN4jh017827 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:23:05 GMT Received: from localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF0B083448 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:27:26 +0200 (SAST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sybase.co.za Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id JMCsDUP0IcgN for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:27:22 +0200 (SAST) Received: from bard.sybase.co.za (bard.sybase.co.za [192.168.2.6]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EDC48344C for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:27:22 +0200 (SAST) Received: from jimmynote.sybase.co.za ([192.168.2.87]) by bard.sybase.co.za with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:24:54 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ati-driver update Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:24:03 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610171424.03934.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Oct 2006 12:24:54.0531 (UTC) FILETIME=[404F3530:01C6F1E7] X-Archives-Salt: 595a79c4-b6dd-4189-8c88-86b6f1aba882 X-Archives-Hash: 9c885d5208d6f32efff6850bc0db7142 On Tuesday 17 October 2006 13:47, oskar kapala wrote: > Hi, > > I have hp zv6000 (amd64) with ati radeon x200. I'm using: > x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.24.8 > or > x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.5.8.0 > Both work more less ok, but work. > > I had >=x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.25.18 in my > /etc/portage/package.mask because drivers later than 8.24.8 doesn't > support my card (it's checked by many till 8.27.10-r1) > > When I've tried to emerge world it failed, because xorg-server and > xf86-video-ati require to upgrade this driver. > > The problem is that if I upgrade my system including ati-drivers and > they won't work I won't be able to return to the old good one - > 8.24.8. It's no longer in portage. Oskar, You don't say which version of xorg you have and want to upgrade to, so I've going to have to take a guess and assume it's the latest stable, and that your $ARCH is amd64. x11-base/xorg-server-1.1.1-r1 is hardcode to require >= x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.6.0 >=x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.27.10 Not much you can do about that. You either have to find a version of the driver that does work and merge that, or start experimenting: Create a local overlay in /usr/local/portage - there's info on how to do this in the gentoo docs. Copy a modified xorg-xserver ebuild over to the overlay and edit the driver requirements. Build, see if it works. If so, leave it and use the overlay instead of the main portage tree. You can also find the older ebuilds on the net that worked for you and put them in the overlay as well. Someone mentioned a site here that does just that yesterday. Then at least you can revert to a known good version that portage won't nuke with every sync :-) alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list