Sebastian Redl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:11:25 +0200:
> So the dependency is required by x11-7.3, which is also experimental. (I > just updated to 7.2.) Mask that, too. [output reformatted a bit for posting] $epkginfo xorg-server Package: x11-base/xorg-server Herd: x11 Maintainer: x11 Location: /p/x11-base/xorg-server Keywords: xorg-server-1.2.0-r3: mips Keywords: xorg-server-1.3.0.0: ppc ppc64 alpha arm amd64 hppa x86 sparc ia64 sh Keywords: xorg-server-1.4-r1: ~arm ~hppa ~x86 ~amd64 ~ppc ~sh ~x86-fbsd ~ia64 ~alpha ~sparc ~ppc64 ~mips So xorg-server-1.3 is no longer experimental. However, note that Gentoo (or more precisely, the several of the Gentoo projects in question including the Gentoo xorg folks) recently instituted a policy of no longer waiting on the developers of closed source modules to catch up, when the software is stable on open source module supported hardware. IMO, it's about time. Now those who are slowing down progress get to deal with some of the headaches they were causing everyone else. So it's possible that newer stable versions won't work so well on hardware dependent on closed source modules, including NVidia and newer ATI Radeon (for now, AMD is releasing specs now, but it'll take a few months to work them into new drivers) video cards for those who want 3D support. The legacy versions should remain in the tree for some time, and users dependent on them can mask newer versions as necessary. > The nv driver does not provide 3d capabilities. Unfortunately true, alto they are working on reverse engineering 3D support. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
