Re: [gentoo-user] How do you handle new Xorg + nvidia + ~x86?

2007-09-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Roy Wright, Until that time will probably just keep masking xorg-server and hope I remember to unmask xorg-x11 at that time. That's probably the most sane approach, unless you want to remove the blocker from the ebuild and try the new XOrg with Nvidia. Masking =xorg-server-1.4 is not a

Re: [gentoo-user] How do you handle new Xorg + nvidia + ~x86?

2007-09-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 11. September 2007, Roy Wright wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: remove the blocker? the current nvidia-drivers work fine, if you add -ignoreAbi to your X-start script (like kdm conf). The problem is that any nvidia-driver is the blocker to xorg-server-1.4-r1. royw-gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] How do you handle new Xorg + nvidia + ~x86?

2007-09-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 11. September 2007, Jesús Guerrero wrote: On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 03:36:13 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dienstag, 11. September 2007, Roy Wright wrote: Howdy, Well, I had to local mask =x11-base/xorg-server-1.4-r1 =x11-base/xorg-server-1.4

Re: [gentoo-user] How do you handle new Xorg + nvidia + ~x86?

2007-09-11 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:28:24 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: remove the blocker? the current nvidia-drivers work fine, if you add -ignoreAbi to your X-start script (like kdm conf). So the nvidia people say. Though I can confirm that in my installation it doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] How do you handle new Xorg + nvidia + ~x86?

2007-09-11 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:53:04 -0400 Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: � Guerrero wrote: On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 03:36:13 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So the nvidia people say. Though I can confirm that in my installation it doesn't work. It just lockups (and yes, I am

Re: [gentoo-user] How do you handle new Xorg + nvidia + ~x86?

2007-09-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 11. September 2007, Jesús Guerrero wrote: On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:28:24 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: remove the blocker? the current nvidia-drivers work fine, if you add -ignoreAbi to your X-start script (like kdm conf). So the nvidia people say.

Re: [gentoo-user] How do you handle new Xorg + nvidia + ~x86?

2007-09-11 Thread Graham Murray
Jesús Guerrero [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can you give me some more info/links or pointers about the reasoning behind this? Why should hal be a problem when it always worked without a single problem? Maybe because xorg-server-1.4 is the first to have the hal USE flag. This would imply that

Re: [gentoo-user] How do you handle new Xorg + nvidia + ~x86?

2007-09-11 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:31:02 +0100 Graham Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jesús Guerrero [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can you give me some more info/links or pointers about the reasoning behind this? Why should hal be a problem when it always worked without a single problem? Maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] How do you handle new Xorg + nvidia + ~x86?

2007-09-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:20:16 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: it works for several people in the nvidia forum. With no 'it does not work' messages. If we're taking a vote, it works for me too, although the option is -ignoreABI, not -ignoreAbi. So the consensus is that, while it may well

Re: [gentoo-user] How do you handle new Xorg + nvidia + ~x86?

2007-09-11 Thread Kent Fredric
On 9/12/07, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:20:16 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: it works for several people in the nvidia forum. With no 'it does not work' messages. If we're taking a vote, it works for me too, although the option is -ignoreABI, not

Re: [gentoo-user] How do you handle new Xorg + nvidia + ~x86?

2007-09-11 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:46:04 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:20:16 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: it works for several people in the nvidia forum. With no 'it does not work' messages. If we're taking a vote, it works for me too, although the

Re: [gentoo-user] How do you handle new Xorg + nvidia + ~x86?

2007-09-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:56:49 +0200, Jesús Guerrero wrote: Yep, that's what I do in these cases. It saves a lot of pain. Not that xorg is vital for me anyway. I am mostly a GNU Screen user ;) Me too, but screen is at its best when run in Konsole :) -- Neil Bothwick Q: Why is top-posting

[gentoo-user] How do you handle new Xorg + nvidia + ~x86?

2007-09-10 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, Well, I had to local mask =x11-base/xorg-server-1.4-r1 =x11-base/xorg-server-1.4 =x11-base/xorg-x11-7.3 today to keep portage from blocking. My guess is that eventually a new version of nvidia-drivers will be available and a new revision of xorg-server will arrive that will support it

Re: [gentoo-user] How do you handle new Xorg + nvidia + ~x86?

2007-09-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 11. September 2007, Roy Wright wrote: Howdy, Well, I had to local mask =x11-base/xorg-server-1.4-r1 =x11-base/xorg-server-1.4 =x11-base/xorg-x11-7.3 today to keep portage from blocking. My guess is that eventually a new version of nvidia-drivers will be available and a new

Re: [gentoo-user] How do you handle new Xorg + nvidia + ~x86?

2007-09-10 Thread Roy Wright
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: remove the blocker? the current nvidia-drivers work fine, if you add -ignoreAbi to your X-start script (like kdm conf). The problem is that any nvidia-driver is the blocker to xorg-server-1.4-r1. royw-gentoo portage # emerge -uDNpv world These are the

Re: [gentoo-user] How do you handle new Xorg + nvidia + ~x86?

2007-09-10 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 03:36:13 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dienstag, 11. September 2007, Roy Wright wrote: Howdy, Well, I had to local mask =x11-base/xorg-server-1.4-r1 =x11-base/xorg-server-1.4 =x11-base/xorg-x11-7.3 today to keep portage from

Re: [gentoo-user] How do you handle new Xorg + nvidia + ~x86?

2007-09-10 Thread Mike
� Guerrero wrote: On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 03:36:13 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dienstag, 11. September 2007, Roy Wright wrote: Howdy, Well, I had to local mask =x11-base/xorg-server-1.4-r1 =x11-base/xorg-server-1.4 =x11-base/xorg-x11-7.3 today to keep portage from