Re: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

["Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@gmail.com>]

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org> wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann writes:
>
>> On Freitag 22 Mai 2009, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>> > x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 won't compile due to a file conflict,
>> > but portageq does not see it.
>
> Probably because the ati-drivers you already have installed do not have this
> file, either because they are an older version, or they did not create it
> when compiling against the old x.org.
>
>> > Anybody know how to work around this?
>
>> yes, remove /usr/lib/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so it should be owned
>> by ati-drivers, if not, some screw up happened.
>
> Or use 'FEATURES=-collision-protect emerge ati-drivers'. I think I had the
> same collision.
>
>> /me wonders why there is still a stone old buggy ebuild/driver in
>> 'stable'.
>
> I was not able to compile newer ati-drivers with tuxonice-sources-2.6.28-r3.
> Or ANY ati-drivers with a newer tuxonice kernel.
>

I thank you for the expert advice.  I'm doing the emerge now, but even
if it succeeds, I'm worried that the xorg-server will still own this
file, since portageq seems to see that it does.  This seems inherently
wrong.

Sigh.  I'm too far along to flinch now, so if this emerges, I'll
probably restart X.

Wish me luck.


-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD