Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers conflicts
On Saturday 24 April 2010 12:56:13 Peter Humphrey wrote: Let's hope the upgrade is a simple one for the Gentoo devs to incorporate into an ebuild. With any luck we'll have it in the next week. Indeed, it has appeared today: $ equery l nvidia-drivers * Searching for nvidiadrivers ... [IP-] [ ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-195.36.24:0 Installed happily. -- Rgds Peter.
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers conflicts
On Saturday 24 April 2010 01:22:53 Peter Ruskin wrote:
On Saturday 24 April 2010 00:08:46 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Hi,
before getting into too much trouble better I aask:
While updateing I got the following message:
('ebuild', '/', 'x11-base/xorg-server-1.8.0', 'merge')
conflicts with x11-base/xorg-server-1.7.99 required by
('installed', '/', 'x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-195.36.15',
'nomerge')
!!! The following update(s) have been skipped due to
unsatisfied dependencies !!! triggered by backtracking:
x11-apps/xinit:0
The first one I understand what I wants to say, but: Is the
conflict based on the limition of the nvidia-driver not to run
with xorg-server-1.8.0 even when recompiled after the new
xorg-server is reinstalled or does the latter help to circumvent
the problem?
What the second message wants to tell me is far beyond my
knowledge ... :)
You don't need to do a thing. Until nvidia comes out with a driver
compatible with xorg-server-1.8, portage will keep you with 1.7.
Portage is also telling you that, because it's keeping xorg-server
at 1.7 it won't upgrade xinit.
See Bug http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315141
The happy news is that nvidia released a driver with xorg-1.8 support on 23
Apr:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=150325
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Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers conflicts
On Saturday 24 April 2010 10:46:17 Alan McKinnon wrote: The happy news is that nvidia released a driver with xorg-1.8 support on 23 Apr: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=150325 Good news! Let's hope the upgrade is a simple one for the Gentoo devs to incorporate into an ebuild. With any luck we'll have it in the next week. -- Rgds Peter.
[gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers conflicts
Hi,
before getting into too much trouble better I aask:
While updateing I got the following message:
('ebuild', '/', 'x11-base/xorg-server-1.8.0', 'merge') conflicts with
x11-base/xorg-server-1.7.99 required by ('installed', '/',
'x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-195.36.15', 'nomerge')
!!! The following update(s) have been skipped due to unsatisfied
dependencies
!!! triggered by backtracking:
x11-apps/xinit:0
The first one I understand what I wants to say, but: Is the conflict
based on the limition of the nvidia-driver not to run with
xorg-server-1.8.0 even when recompiled after the new xorg-server
is reinstalled or does the latter help to circumvent the problem?
What the second message wants to tell me is far beyond my knowledge ... :)
Thank you very much for your help in advance!
Best regards,
mcc
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Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers conflicts
On Saturday 24 April 2010 01:08:46 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Hi,
before getting into too much trouble better I aask:
While updateing I got the following message:
('ebuild', '/', 'x11-base/xorg-server-1.8.0', 'merge') conflicts
with x11-base/xorg-server-1.7.99 required by ('installed', '/',
'x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-195.36.15', 'nomerge')
!!! The following update(s) have been skipped due to unsatisfied
dependencies !!! triggered by backtracking:
x11-apps/xinit:0
The first one I understand what I wants to say, but: Is the conflict
based on the limition of the nvidia-driver not to run with
xorg-server-1.8.0 even when recompiled after the new xorg-server
is reinstalled or does the latter help to circumvent the problem?
The former:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315141#c3
What the second message wants to tell me is far beyond my knowledge ... :)
It's portage trying to tell you how those incompatible versions are in the
list to be emerged. A backtrack is simply that - start with what you have,
find out what pulled it in, and what pulled that in, till you come to the end
(usually something in your world file).
Without digging into ebuilds, it looks like xinit pulls in xorg-x11 which
pulls in xorg-server which conflicts with nvidia-drivers,.
This is a classic case of rule #1 of program output: never expose the
underlying implementation in your output. That info is completely useless to
most users and needs re-thinking. Decent programming practice says that output
shout only be given if the user asks for it like that, with say a --debug
option for example.
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