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 8:20 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.


Hmm.  Even with the FEATURES option from the suggestion, I get exactly
the same error message.  I cut-and-pasted it, but I wonder if it's
spelled right?

I'm going to try just deleting (well, renaming) the file, hoping that
this will work...



-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD