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 1FvF5E-0002wI-Hp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 15:02:32 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k5RExpYb000988; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:59:51 GMT Received: from ilievnet.com ([84.21.204.200]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5REsfvr028250 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:54:41 GMT Received: (qmail 12425 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2006 17:54:41 +0300 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.ilievnet.com) (127.0.0.1) by 0 with SMTP; 27 Jun 2006 17:54:41 +0300 Received: from 10.0.1.1 (SquirrelMail authenticated user danny@ilievnet.com) by mail.ilievnet.com with HTTP; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 17:54:41 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <49901.10.0.1.1.1151420081.squirrel@mail.ilievnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20060627123937.37ca4ab0@hactar.digimed.co.uk> References: <87wtbga1tn.fsf@newsguy.com> <47117.10.0.1.1.1151407108.squirrel@mail.ilievnet.com> <20060627123937.37ca4ab0@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 17:54:41 +0300 (EEST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg & nvidia (again) ;-( From: "Daniel Iliev" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.6 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=windows-1251 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Archives-Salt: f15637d6-3032-496a-b2ef-529b6c47e566 X-Archives-Hash: b96adf404202b7ae91253caa0a637926 On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 2:39 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > You don't need anything in package.mask to run Xorg 7, you just need to > keyword the various packages as ~x86 in /etc/portage/package.keywords. > Then you need to add some of the 7.1 packages to > /etc/portage/package.mask to prevent the conflict with the nvidia stuff. > My package.mask file contains > > >~x11-base/xorg-server-1.1.0 > >=x11-base/xorg-x11-7.1 > >=x11-drivers/xf86-video-vga-4.1.0 > >=x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard-1.1.0 > >=x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard-1.1.0 > >=x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse-1.1.1 > >=x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv-1.1.2 > So I have to put the above pkgs in /etc/portage/package.mask and do: wget -O - http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-packages.txt >> /etc/portage/package.keywords After these steps I would be able to install Xorg & Xgl & Compiz with "emerge -C xorg-x11 /virtual/x11 && emerge -DuNav world" and following the instructions in the "Gentoo Xgl Howto" ( http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_XGL ) Is that correct? Because I really hate the idea of loosing another couple of days compiling X servers and downgrading to stable after all. ;-( -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list