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 1FwJCL-0004yf-2X for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 13:38:17 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k5UDarVE025244; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 13:36:53 GMT Received: from smtp-vbr14.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr14.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.34]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5UDW5Wb020043 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 13:32:05 GMT Received: from [10.0.0.1] (krikos.xs4all.nl [82.92.255.70]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp-vbr14.xs4all.nl (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5UDW4hE036130 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 15:32:05 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Dave.Jones@xs4all.nl) Message-ID: <44A527D4.6030904@xs4all.nl> Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 15:32:04 +0200 From: Dave Jones Organization: Krikos User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060604) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 upgrade References: <44A50D62.5080609@xs4all.nl> <200606301355.09044.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> In-Reply-To: <200606301355.09044.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k5UDarVU025244 X-Archives-Salt: 151f70c5-4b99-4f75-9940-c15f09c5f4bb X-Archives-Hash: ff7e3bcb209cf37f75a2e915f914ae78 Bo =D8rsted Andresen wrote on 30/06/06 13:55: >> The stable branch xorg-x11 seems to have been upgraded to version >> xorg-x11-7.0-r1. > Just follow [1]. >> However, emerge -puDNv world shows the new x11-xorg blocked by >> xorg-x11-6.9. >> I don't understand this, as I have xorg-x11-6.8.2-r8 installed. > Read more carefully. It's blocked by '<=3Dx11-base/xorg-x11-6.9'. Note = the less=20 > than sign. Oops, my mistake. >> OK, the new meta-package may be very nice, but I really don't want to >> compile all the drivers for devices I don't have on my system. At the >> moment I use the proprietary nvidia drivers; are these supported under >> xorg-x11-7.0? > Then set VIDEO_CARDS=3D"nvidia" in /etc/make.conf. It's all covered in = [1]. > [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml Bo, Dirk, thanks for the information. I'll get to work on this (major) update. I'll add the nv driver to VIDEO_CARDS as well to have a fall back in case the binary nvidia drivers won't work with the new x11. Cheers, Dave --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list