On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: >> I'm having a terrible time figuring this out. xorg-server-1.5 has >> totally broken my wife's machine in terms of the one thing she wants >> for fun which is MythTV. I need to take the machine back to the >> previous version of xorg-server but so far I Cannot figure out what to >> remove with emerge -C and what to mask to get this to work. >> >> Can someone better than I please tell me what to do here? >> >> Thanks, >> Mark >> >> >> > > I'm not better but I did the same thing on my rig. I hope this will help. > > # ######## xorg-server masking ######### >>=x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r4 > =x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard-1.3.2 > =x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.1.3 > =x11-proto/printproto-1.0.4 > =x11-proto/renderproto-0.9.3 > =x11-libs/libXrender-0.9.4 > > Just put that in your package.mask file and run emerge -uvDNa world. > > Dale >
Thanks Dale. I was about half way through getting the same list. This will save a lot of time. I apprecaite your help, Mark
