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 1N7IeD-0002MB-9e for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:02:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 89168E0ED1; Mon, 9 Nov 2009 01:02:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FC8FE0ED1 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 2009 01:02:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE9D967E5C for ; Mon, 9 Nov 2009 01:02:18 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.136 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.136 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.537, BAYES_00=-2.599] 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 5U3R5gMkCAYP for ; Mon, 9 Nov 2009 01:02:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AA5767D4C for ; Mon, 9 Nov 2009 01:02:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1N7Idx-0005ow-CE for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:02:05 +0100 Received: from athedsl-380019.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.36.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:02:05 +0100 Received: from realnc by athedsl-380019.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:02:05 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server upgrading problem Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:01:46 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <594FE8B8-3A3B-4F5C-957A-15E6A3E8D671@wright.org> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-380019.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20091019 Thunderbird/3.0b4 In-Reply-To: <594FE8B8-3A3B-4F5C-957A-15E6A3E8D671@wright.org> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 95ff8908-069b-4de3-9288-54299f30dd21 X-Archives-Hash: cdd07afed0521af397f5b4d93038b97e On 11/09/2009 02:46 AM, Roy Wright wrote: > Howdy, > > I have a home server/htpc (~x86) that I'm finally updating after a few > months and I hit an issue with xorg-server. Here's the background: > > Was at xorg-server-1.6.3 and current sync tried to upgrade to 1.7.1, > which failed to compile. In researching on b.g.o., discovered that > nvidia has not released a driver yet that will work with 1.7.1, so > followed the bug report directions and masked out several packages to > prevent 1.7.1 upgrading. I think the bug about ati-drivers should help: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290739 From that bug, follow those two comments *exactly*: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290739#c3 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290739#c6 This should get you to a correctly installed 1.6.5 again.