Re: [gentoo-user] excess x11 drivers

2008-11-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 16 November 2008 02:24:10 Harry Putnam wrote: I posted some output in anther thread concerning update world (Subject: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem) Someone noticed I had too many x11 drivers installed and suggested I set the /etc/make.conf VIDEO_CARDS variable

Re: [gentoo-user] excess x11 drivers

2008-11-16 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Someone noticed I had too many x11 drivers installed and suggested I set the /etc/make.conf VIDEO_CARDS variable (which I never have set before) I figured out I have an nvidia card so set VIDEO_CARDS=nv Now with my emerge -vuDN @system @world complete I'm unable to start X. (More on that

Re: [gentoo-user] excess x11 drivers

2008-11-16 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
No, nvidia is for the proprietary binary nvida driver. The free driver for nvidia cards is called NV. By NV I meant nv. I always see it uncapitalized, so I think this (nv) is its name, not NV. Sorry for the typo.

Re: [gentoo-user] excess x11 drivers

2008-11-16 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I posted some output in anther thread concerning update world (Subject: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem) Someone noticed I had too many x11 drivers installed and suggested I set the /etc/make.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] excess x11 drivers

2008-11-16 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 16. November 2008 01:24:10 schrieb Harry Putnam: But a little peek with eix -Ic |grep x11-drivers  I still see a hefty mess of them: They wont go away just because you've set VIDEO_CARDS. You have to uninstall them either manually or by running emerge --depclean (-p). HTH...

Re: [gentoo-user] excess x11 drivers

2008-11-16 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 16. November 2008 01:24:10 schrieb Harry Putnam: dep -l x11-drivers/xf86-video-voodoo:    ! x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 Actaully, the output is: # dep -l x11-drivers/xf86-video-voodoo x11-drivers/xf86-video-voodoo-1.1.1: !=x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 And this means: You

Re: [gentoo-user] excess x11 drivers

2008-11-16 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I posted some output in anther thread concerning update world (Subject: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem) Someone

Re: [gentoo-user] excess x11 drivers

2008-11-16 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 16. November 2008 16:12:58 schrieb Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto: On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I posted some output in anther thread concerning

Re: [gentoo-user] excess x11 drivers

2008-11-16 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Sonntag, 16. November 2008 16:12:58 schrieb Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto: On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Harry Putnam [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] excess x11 drivers

2008-11-16 Thread Dale
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: Someone noticed I had too many x11 drivers installed and suggested I set the /etc/make.conf VIDEO_CARDS variable (which I never have set before) I figured out I have an nvidia card so set VIDEO_CARDS=nv Now with my emerge -vuDN @system @world complete I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] excess x11 drivers

2008-11-16 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Give this a shot: VIDEO_CARDS=nvidia No, nvidia is for the proprietary binary nvida driver. The free driver for nvidia cards is called NV. I have a GeForce4 MX 440 and I have this in my make.conf: VIDEO_CARDS=nv vesa What you say may be true, pretty sure it is, but what he is doing is

Re: [gentoo-user] excess x11 drivers

2008-11-16 Thread Dale
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: Give this a shot: VIDEO_CARDS=nvidia No, nvidia is for the proprietary binary nvida driver. The free driver for nvidia cards is called NV. I have a GeForce4 MX 440 and I have this in my make.conf: VIDEO_CARDS=nv vesa What you say may

[gentoo-user] excess x11 drivers

2008-11-15 Thread Harry Putnam
I posted some output in anther thread concerning update world (Subject: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem) Someone noticed I had too many x11 drivers installed and suggested I set the /etc/make.conf VIDEO_CARDS variable (which I never have set before) I figured out I have an nvidia

Re: [gentoo-user] excess x11 drivers

2008-11-15 Thread Dale
Harry Putnam wrote: I posted some output in anther thread concerning update world (Subject: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem) Someone noticed I had too many x11 drivers installed and suggested I set the /etc/make.conf VIDEO_CARDS variable (which I never have set before) I

Re: [gentoo-user] excess x11 drivers

2008-11-15 Thread Wang, Baojun
在 2008-11-15六的 18:38 -0600,Dale写道: Harry Putnam wrote: I posted some output in anther thread concerning update world (Subject: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem) Someone noticed I had too many x11 drivers installed and suggested I set the /etc/make.conf VIDEO_CARDS variable