"Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am not only concerned about the problem reported in this thread; I > also want to give opinion on his larger "update a very outdated > system" task.
Just for the record... I seem to have gotten things under control and did set VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia". I ran into a problem somewhere in the compile of the x11 drivers that brought up where some file (I didn't keep the name) was not available in the most recent kernel sources. Rather than keep pounding away, I backed off to uname -r 2.6.25-gentoo-r9 I didn't test any of the releases in between, since I was pretty sure something in the ...25 series would work since my last kernel (prior to updating to ...27* was ..25-r6. Those sources appear to supply everthing needed. I also discovered that none of the kernel based NVIDIA modules were necessary. And finally as advised here in another thread recently I ran --depclean after successful update @system @world and many of those x11-drivers were dumped. Now I get a clean slate there: $ eix -Ic |grep x11-driver [I] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers [...] [I] x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev [...] [I] x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard [...] [I] x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse [...] And X works fine. I don't tax a video card much in my usage of linux. It's my main desktop but my semi-professional video-editing is all done on windowsXP machines for access to the first rate adobe tools. Opening the occasional graphics file in mail is about it on my gentoo desktop. Many thanks to all for the generous help. I guess I'll have to take the final step and setup some cron based update method that happens a lot more frequently...
