On Dienstag, 11. September 2007, Jesús Guerrero wrote: > On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 03:36:13 +0200 > > Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 are just outdated).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).
and I can confirm, that it works very well. With composite turned on. ut2004 and vegastrike-svn. Without lockups. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
