Allan Gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> writes: > Helmut Jarausch <jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> writes: > >> On 12/21/10 15:41:20, Allan Gottlieb wrote: >>> My plan is to stay like this until xorg 1.9 hits ~amd64 since I >> >> It is already unmasked in ~amd64 (It's running just fine here) > > Bingo. There was a mesa problem a while ago (7.8.2) that caused me to > mask =media-libs/mesa-7.8.2. This caused me to mask xorg-server above > the current running one. I didn't notice that mesa did advance and I am > running 7.9-r1. So I just now unmasked both mesa and xorg-server and > update world updated xorg-server and xinit. > > Let's see if this now permits me to let depclean remove hal.
It all works fine. Depclean removed hal and friends and a reboot still has X and xdm (i.e., gdm). thanks again. allan