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 1QgOeZ-0003Qj-0y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 22:08:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DF1A521C14D for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 22:08:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yi0-f53.google.com (mail-yi0-f53.google.com [209.85.218.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EB66E0462 for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 21:30:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yic15 with SMTP id 15so2363289yic.40 for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:30:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=usPnh7d7il3Eh6PzRlCTBea2TD4wDa9gwmNPOZAvbNU=; b=iMKj6ikdzpceBmPsEn5X3LftGtSYZr8mShvfeWH90s4eMlhD0XalDariYws9SJRwIl DU/bgwn74Z+6ssfBatJvkibcBU16QGuTjsmfZrIjvCJcvMhL1UFbbJ+Bco+fD+swB/K+ X0g2rcRXlJ1m4cW33FH61ctyxg2oxxVYsx8vU= Received: by 10.236.154.5 with SMTP id g5mr6201300yhk.198.1310419849577; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:30:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-74-240-57-83.jan.bellsouth.net [74.240.57.83]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id v4sm9512353yhm.6.2011.07.11.14.30.48 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:30:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E1B6B87.7050803@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:30:47 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110708 Gentoo/2.0.14-r1 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics. References: <4E11EEF3.70804@gmail.com> <4E168B0E.2070100@gmail.com> <201107080702.58452.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <4E16B251.6080204@gmail.com> <4E16B548.5050105@gmail.com> <4E17B3C3.4010009@gmail.com> <4E187F60.9080400@gmail.com> <4E18ABC3.1090909@orlitzky.com> <4E18C082.4070209@gmail.com> <4E18C977.9070001@orlitzky.com> <4E18D5A7.8040309@gmail.com> <4E1971AA.20209@coolmail.se> <4E1A00BA.5090306@gmail.com> <20110710230550.3e7c9060@digimed.co.uk> <4E1A4374.2090707@gmail.com> <20110711101558.497e1180@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20110711101558.497e1180@digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 666cb63f38d7f19483fab7278c623d2a Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 19:27:32 -0500, Dale wrote: > > >>> WAG - have you tried the nv drivers? >>> > >> I did but I couldn't get X to even start. I guess something is not set >> right somewhere. I have nv in make.conf and been there since I built >> this thing so sort of clueless on why it don't work. >> > Did you remove the nvidia drivers and xorg.conf? > > You mean emerge -C the nvidia drivers? The last time I used the nv drivers, I just had to change it from nvidia to nv in xorg.conf. >> While I am at it, what is the syntax to mask a package higher than a >> certain version in package.mask? I tired =>package.name.version and >> tried>= package.name.version but the former doesn't work and seems to >> ignore it and the later makes emerge print a boo boo message. On my >> old rig, I want to mask anything above the 173 series. So far, I >> haven't had the light bulb moment and never can remember how to do this. >> > >> category/package-version >> Let me try and explain this way. This is the list of drivers in the tree: [-P-] [ ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-96.43.19:0 [-P-] [ ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.28:0 [-P-] [ ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.30:0 [-P-] [ ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-256.53:0 [-P-] [ ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-260.19.44:0 [-P-] [ ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-270.41.06:0 [IP-] [ ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-270.41.19:0 [-P-] [ ~] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-275.09.07:0 I want my old rig to be able to upgrade to whatever gets released in the 173 series but no to anything above that, since they don't work with my card. I was thinking I used to do it like this: >=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.99.99 or something to that effect. I just can't recall how to do it at the moment but each time I do a emerge -uvDNa world, it wants to upgrade the nvidia drivers to the 275 series or something. See what I am running into? I don't think I was to clear before. One of those days. Dale :-) :-)