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 1FrZRk-0000DF-9S for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 11:58:36 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k5HBubxr005481; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 11:56:37 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5HBjEX8002171 for ; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 11:45:14 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C099764E5E for ; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 11:45:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 13114-01 for ; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 11:45:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C71C64CDC for ; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 11:45:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FrZEc-0006lb-8G for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 13:45:02 +0200 Received: from adsl-68-79-63-43.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net ([68.79.63.43]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 13:45:02 +0200 Received: from reader by adsl-68-79-63-43.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 13:45:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: reader@newsguy.com Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: remove xorg-server to emerge nvidia-glx <=Normal? Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 06:43:11 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87hd2k80ts.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87wtbga1tn.fsf@newsguy.com> <5c751a230606170118o33f5ac2co471e7e8771b61638@mail.gmail.com> 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=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-68-79-63-43.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Eb2Px9CC+jKILWBuT+SioEiNg4s= Sender: news X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.569 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.008, BAYES_00=-2.599, NO_REAL_NAME=0.961, TW_GL=0.077] X-Spam-Score: -1.569 X-Spam-Level: X-Archives-Salt: 9a533b26-dd5b-4862-b4c7-6252ed82449e X-Archives-Hash: 0f69191a8bb9c06cf6a0926abdc069e1 "Calvin Walton" writes: > Unfortunately, if you've already installed xorg 7.1, it's really hard > to downgrade. > Perhaps you can find some help from someone else on doing that, I've > make a local overlay ebuild without the block because it was working > for me. Pavel appears to be suggesting that I un-emerge the current xorg-server. Then install the nvidia stuff and then using his package.mask, reinstall xorg-server. Do you think that will lead to troubles? I'm going to close down X and try it... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list