* Re: [gentoo-user] How do you handle new Xorg + nvidia + ~x86?
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@ 2007-09-11 4:53 99% ` Mike
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From: Mike @ 2007-09-11 4:53 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
� Guerrero wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 03:36:13 +0200
> Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> wrote:
>
>> On Dienstag, 11. September 2007, Roy Wright wrote:
>>> Howdy,
>>>
>>> Well, I had to local mask
>>>
>>> =x11-base/xorg-server-1.4-r1
>>> =x11-base/xorg-server-1.4
>>> =x11-base/xorg-x11-7.3
>>>
>>> today to keep portage from blocking. My guess
>>> is that eventually a new version of nvidia-drivers
>>> will be available and a new revision of xorg-server
>>> will arrive that will support it (no longer block all
>>> versions of nvidia-drivers).
>>>
>>> Until that time will probably just keep masking
>>> xorg-server and hope I remember to unmask
>>> xorg-x11 at that time.
>>>
>>> This seems inelegant. So I'm hoping someone
>>> has a better approach.
>
> The really inelegant solution would be not to have the blocker.
> Most people would just update without looking even at the
> emerge -puDvN world output, and them complain on a huge and
> useless thread on the forums, because something broke :P
>
> If you have the blocker, you can't screw up the thing. Blockers
> are the only solution for incompatible packages, and the new xorg
> version is incompatible with all the nvidia-drivers version. In
> fact, no future version of xorg will fix this, since it is completely
> nvidia-side. So, I would change your snipped above by this one:
>
>> =x11-base/xorg-server-1.4-r1
>> =x11-base/xorg-server-1.4
>> =x11-base/xorg-x11-7.3
>
> Note, the '>=' in front of the packages, those are not quotations
> starting with '>', but '>=', because any new version will have the
> same problem (since as I said, the problem is in the drivers, that
> are just outdated).
>
> If you have to incompatible packages, you need to decide what
> your priority is, period. There is no way around that, until
> nvidia decides to release a new version that is compatible with
> the new abi.
>
>
>> remove the blocker? the current nvidia-drivers work fine, if you
>> add -ignoreAbi to your X-start script (like kdm conf).
>
> So the nvidia people say. Though I can confirm that in my installation
> it doesn't work. It just lockups (and yes, I am sure that X composite
> was off, because I always have it off).
>
The lockup is probably caused by having the hal use flag set when you
compile xorg-server. If you disable it you should be able to run the X
server without conflicting with hal/dbus which was the problem.
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