On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 14:51 +0000, Ferris McCormick wrote:
> For your information, nvidia-drivers-1.0.8776 and xorg-server-1.0.2-r7
> are compatible; -1.0.8776 and the xorg-server-1.1.1 series are not.
> Reason is changes in xorg-server, and if you try the combination
> -1.0.8776 and -1.1.1, you should not get anywhere at all: it flat out
> won't work. I don't know off hand what xorg-server version the
> nvidia-drivers-1.0.9xxx need. The ebuilds will let you build an
> incompatible pairing.
>
Are you sure, I think it was version prior 1.0.8776 that had problems with
xorg 1.1.1.
At least this is what I have and absolutely no problems:
#emerge --search nvidia-drivers xorg-server
Searching...
[ Results for search key : nvidia-drivers ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]
* x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
Latest version available: 1.0.8776
Latest version installed: 1.0.8776
Size of files: 25,303 kB
Homepage: http://www.nvidia.com/
Description: NVIDIA X11 driver and GLX libraries
License: NVIDIA
Searching...
[ Results for search key : xorg-server ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]
* x11-base/xorg-server
Latest version available: 1.1.1-r1
Latest version installed: 1.1.1-r1
Size of files: 9,170 kB
Homepage: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/
Description: X.Org X servers
License: xorg-server MIT
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