More about: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg nvidia (again) ;-(

2006-06-27 Thread Alan E. Davis
I am thorougly confused: things must be moving very quickly with xorg 7. I hope my jumping in here will not further confuse the issue. I have found various descriptions of the roots of the problem, and various solutions involving masking different combinations of packages. I had decided to

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg nvidia (again) ;-(

2006-06-27 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 2:39 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: You don't need anything in package.mask to run Xorg 7, you just need to keyword the various packages as ~x86 in /etc/portage/package.keywords. Then you need to add some of the 7.1 packages to /etc/portage/package.mask to prevent the conflict

Re: More about: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg nvidia (again) ;-(

2006-06-27 Thread Richard Fish
On 6/27/06, Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Is this the ebuild that is pulling nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx back in? (I already unmerged nvidia-settings). This is being pulled in because you have VIDEO_CARDS=nvidia in /etc/make.conf. If you want only the opensource nv driver,

Re: More about: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg nvidia (again) ;-(

2006-06-27 Thread Alan E. Davis
On 6/28/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is being pulled in because you have VIDEO_CARDS=nvidia in /etc/make.conf. If you want only the opensource nv driver, you want VIDEO_CARDS=nv instead. Ok, I'll try this. What's IUSE=video_cards_nvidia ... etc all about in the xine-lib

Re: More about: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg nvidia (again) ;-(

2006-06-27 Thread Richard Fish
On 6/27/06, Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nv has been ok. W/ dual opterons, even though not especially fast ones, these graphics intensive tasks have been performing well. Googleearth hasn't been working, either because of this issue, or amd64 incompatibility: it works well even with a

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg nvidia (again) ;-(

2006-06-27 Thread David Klempner
* Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-27 10:02]: So I have to put the above pkgs in /etc/portage/package.mask and do: wget -O - http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-packages.txt /etc/portage/package.keywords After these steps I would be able to install Xorg Xgl

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg nvidia (again) ;-(

2006-06-27 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Wed, Юни 28, 2006 12:16 am, David Klempner wrote: Not only *can* you have xorg and xgl installed side by side, you *want* to have xorg available. Of course. That's the reason I want to do this upgrade. The problem is I (still) can't find the right masks. Actually once I got it running but