From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1O5SE7-0007Qe-4q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Apr 2010 23:24:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4B6EEE07F9; Fri, 23 Apr 2010 23:23:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mk-outboundfilter-6.mail.uk.tiscali.com (mk-outboundfilter-6.mail.uk.tiscali.com [212.74.114.14]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5995E07F9 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2010 23:23:30 +0000 (UTC) X-Trace: 202076580/mk-outboundfilter-6.mail.uk.tiscali.com/PIPEX/$PIPEX-ACCEPTED/pipex-customers/81.86.110.137/None/peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com X-SBRS: None X-RemoteIP: 81.86.110.137 X-IP-MAIL-FROM: peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com X-SMTP-AUTH: aoyu93@dsl.pipex.com X-Originating-Country: GB/UNITED KINGDOM X-MUA: KMail/1.9.10 X-IP-BHB: Once X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AowKAO7I0UtRVm6J/2dsb2JhbACQL4YaCwKFWHK9UYULBIwG X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.52,264,1270422000"; d="scan'208";a="202076580" X-IP-Direction: OUT Received: from 81-86-110-137.dsl.pipex.com (HELO nero.ruskin) ([81.86.110.137]) by smtp.pipex.tiscali.co.uk with ESMTP; 24 Apr 2010 00:23:27 +0100 From: Peter Ruskin Organization: Retired To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers conflicts Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 00:22:53 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <20100423230846.GA6919@solfire> In-Reply-To: <20100423230846.GA6919@solfire> X-No-Archive: yes Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.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: <201004240022.53926.peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com> X-Archives-Salt: ca5603e1-d207-44ef-80b2-aec3f9bc068c X-Archives-Hash: 9eee3a14e74e3e8ba316d756ba76b92a On Saturday 24 April 2010 00:08:46 meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > before getting into too much trouble better I aask: > While updateing I got the following message: > > ('ebuild', '/', 'x11-base/xorg-server-1.8.0', 'merge') > conflicts with ('installed', '/', 'x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-195.36.15', > 'nomerge') > > > !!! The following update(s) have been skipped due to > unsatisfied dependencies !!! triggered by backtracking: > x11-apps/xinit:0 > > > The first one I understand what I wants to say, but: Is the > conflict based on the limition of the nvidia-driver not to run > with xorg-server-1.8.0 even when recompiled after the new > xorg-server is reinstalled or does the latter help to circumvent > the problem? > > What the second message wants to tell me is far beyond my > knowledge ... :) > You don't need to do a thing. Until nvidia comes out with a driver compatible with xorg-server-1.8, portage will keep you with 1.7. Portage is also telling you that, because it's keeping xorg-server at 1.7 it won't upgrade xinit. See Bug http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315141 -- Peter ======================================================================== Gentoo Linux: Portage 2.2_rc67 kernel-2.6.33-gentoo-r1 AMD Phenom(tm) 9950 Quad-Core Processor gcc(Gentoo: 4.4.3) KDE: 3.5.10 Qt: 3.3.8b ========================================================================