[gentoo-user] ati-drivers-8.552-r1 is blocking xorg-server

[gentoo-user] ati-drivers-8.552-r1 is blocking xorg-server

[Nikos Chantziaras]

I can't figure out how to fix this.  emerge ati-drivers gives this:

[ebuild  N    ] x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r1  USE="acpi -debug" 
74,042 kB
[blocks B     ] x11-drivers/ati-drivers (is blocking
x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.2)

I'm trying to modify the ebuild:

/usr/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r1.ebuild

(in my local overlay of course) but I don't see where the block occurs. 
  Can anyone help?  The dependencies are the following and I can't 
figure out why they're blocking xorg-server-1.5.2:

RDEPEND="x11-base/xorg-server
         !x11-apps/ati-drivers-extra
         >=app-admin/eselect-1.0.9
         app-admin/eselect-opengl
         amd64? ( app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs )
         acpi? (
                 x11-apps/xauth
                 sys-power/acpid
         )
         x11-libs/libXrandr
         >=sys-apps/portage-2.1.1-r1"

DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
         x11-proto/xf86miscproto
         x11-proto/xf86vidmodeproto
         x11-proto/inputproto"

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers-8.552-r1 is blocking xorg-server

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Sonntag 16 November 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> I can't figure out how to fix this.  emerge ati-drivers gives this:
>
> [ebuild  N    ] x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r1  USE="acpi -debug"
> 74,042 kB
> [blocks B     ] x11-drivers/ati-drivers (is blocking
> x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.2)
>
> I'm trying to modify the ebuild:
>

don't do it. 1.5&8.552 hate each other. You will have broken composite and no 
aiglx.

Just wait.

[gentoo-user] Re: ati-drivers-8.552-r1 is blocking xorg-server

[Nikos Chantziaras]

Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Sonntag 16 November 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> I can't figure out how to fix this.  emerge ati-drivers gives this:
>>
>> [ebuild  N    ] x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r1  USE="acpi -debug"
>> 74,042 kB
>> [blocks B     ] x11-drivers/ati-drivers (is blocking
>> x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.2)
>>
>> I'm trying to modify the ebuild:
>>
> 
> don't do it. 1.5&8.552 hate each other. You will have broken composite and no 
> aiglx.

I already have broken composite (or rather, no composite at all) and 
neither aiglx :D  (4870 with x11-drivers/radeonhd).  At least with this 
one the card isn't frying itself (no power management with OSS drivers) 
and I have OpenGL working (no 3D with OSS drivers).

The problem btw was that portage was lying to me.  It's not ati-drivers 
blocking xorg-server, but the other way around; xorg-server is blocking 
ati-drivers. :P

I got them to install.  They run better than the open source drivers :P