Re: [gentoo-user] How do you handle new Xorg + nvidia + ~x86?

[Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>]

On Dienstag, 11. September 2007, Roy Wright wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> Well, I had to local mask
>
> =x11-base/xorg-server-1.4-r1
> =x11-base/xorg-server-1.4
> =x11-base/xorg-x11-7.3
>
> today to keep portage from blocking.  My guess
> is that eventually a new version of nvidia-drivers
> will be available and a new revision of xorg-server
> will arrive that will support it (no longer block all
> versions of nvidia-drivers).
>
> Until that time will probably just keep masking
> xorg-server and hope I remember to unmask
> xorg-x11 at that time.
>
> This seems inelegant.  So I'm hoping someone
> has a better approach.
>
>
> TIA,
> Roy

remove the blocker? the current nvidia-drivers work fine, if you 
add -ignoreAbi to your X-start script (like kdm conf).
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