I recently switched from the proprietary ati-driver to the open source radeon driver. After a great deal of sweating and swearing and experimenting, I got the xorg.conf file properly configured. I have ati-drivers masked in my package.mask. However, something in my system still thinks I should be using the ati-drivers. Updating world gives me:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/portage # emerge -uDvat world These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating world dependencies / !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.27.10" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.27.10-r1 (masked by: package.mask) - x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.28.8 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword) - x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.29.6 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword) For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. !!! Problem resolving dependencies for kde-base/kompare !!! Depgraph creation failed. Just to see what it would give me, I commented oue the ati-package in package.mask and tested updating kompare. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/portage # emerge -uDvat kompare These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! [blocks B ] <media-sound/esound-0.2.36-r2 (is blocking app-admin/eselect-esd-20060719) [ebuild N ] x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.27.10-r1 USE="opengl -acpi -doc" 0 kB [nomerge ] media-fonts/font-alias-1.0.1 USE="-debug" [nomerge ] kde-base/arts-3.5.2-r1 USE="alsa esd mp3 vorbis xinerama -artswrappersuid -debug -jack -kdeenablefinal -kdehiddenvisibility -nas" [ebuild U ] media-sound/esound-0.2.36-r2 [0.2.36-r1] USE="alsa ipv6 tcpd -debug (-static%)" 0 kB [ebuild N ] app-admin/eselect-esd-20060719 1 kB [ebuild U ] media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.13 [1.0.12] USE="-debug% -doc" 693 kB [ebuild U ] media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.13 [1.0.12] 2,348 kB [nomerge ] x11-libs/qt-3.3.6-r4 USE="cups gif ipv6 opengl xinerama -debug -doc -examples -firebird -immqt -immqt-bc -mysql -nas -nis -odbc -postgres -sqlite" [ebuild N ] virtual/opengl-7.0 0 kB [nomerge ] media-libs/mesa-6.5.1-r1 USE="motif nptl -debug -doc -hardened" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon -i810 -mach64 -mga -none -r128 -s3virge -savage -sis (-sunffb) -tdfx -trident -via" [nomerge ] x11-libs/openmotif-2.2.3-r9 [nomerge ] sys-libs/glibc-2.4-r3 USE="nls nptl nptlonly -build -glibc-compat20% -glibc-omitfp -hardened (-multilib) -profile (-selinux)" [ebuild U ] sys-libs/timezone-data-2006n [2006g] 336 kB [nomerge ] app-misc/ca-certificates-20050804 [nomerge ] x11-proto/xineramaproto-1.1.2 USE="-debug" [nomerge ] sys-devel/automake-1.9.6-r2 [nomerge ] sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r7 USE="-emacs" [nomerge ] sys-devel/autoconf-wrapper-3.2 [nomerge ] sys-devel/autoconf-2.13 [ebuild U ] sys-devel/m4-1.4.6 [1.4.4] USE="nls" 495 kB I'm not worried about the esound blockage. That's another issue. I'm just trying to figure out why my system thinks ati-package is a requirement. I have a hard time believing that someone with an NVidia card would need that package, so it can't be a hard requirement. Any ideas on how to track this down? I don't see anything in the USE flags which might bring it in. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
