I am thorougly confused: things must be moving very quickly with xorg
7. I hope my jumping in here will not further confuse the issue. I
have found various descriptions of the roots of the problem, and
various solutions involving masking different combinations of
packages. I had decided to drop back to "xf86-video-nv.
Neil, you have masked
>=f86-video-nv-1.1.2
Wow.
I have been having another problem that I'm uncertain would belong in
this thread: I got rid of nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx altogether,
much to my regret because they are faster. Now when I emerge -uDv
world, the system wants to pull these in again. I have traced the
problem, unbelievably, to xine-libs: my ebuild required some USE flag,
I think.
In /usr/portage/media-libs/xine-lib/xine-lib-1.1.2_pre20060606-r3.ebuild
I find:
IUSE_VIDEO_CARDS="video_cards_nvidia video_cards_via video_cards_i810"
Thus I have two more questions:
1. Is this the ebuild that is pulling nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx
back in? (I already unmerged nvidia-settings).
2. Is it even possible to run nvidia-kernel? Is the "nv" driver
all that bad, or is it possible to get it to work decently with
opengl? Is it possible to work with new nv drivers?
Also, there is the parameter in /etc/make.conf:
VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
Should this be dealt with? I did this when following a howto about
migrating to modular xorg.
I apologize for crashing this thread, especially if somehow I have
misunderstood.
Alan Davis
On 6/27/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You don't need anything in package.mask to run Xorg 7, you just need to
keyword the various packages as ~x86 in /etc/portage/package.keywords.
Then you need to add some of the 7.1 packages to
/etc/portage/package.mask to prevent the conflict with the nvidia stuff.
My package.mask file contains
>~x11-base/xorg-server-1.1.0
>=x11-base/xorg-x11-7.1
>=x11-drivers/xf86-video-vga-4.1.0
>=x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard-1.1.0
>=x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard-1.1.0
>=x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse-1.1.1
>=x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv-1.1.2
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