On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 14:57:01 -0700, Scott Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 13:34 -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > I mentioned elsewhere that emerge -aDvu world emerged xorg 6.8 and > > promptly downgraded to 6.7. Someone opined that it was because I have > > ATI Rage XL video and something about ati-drivers. > > They are correct. In the ebuild for ati-drivers-3.14.6 is this depend: > DEPEND="|| ( <x11-base/xorg-x11-6.7.99 >=x11-base/xfree-4.3.0 )" > > > I have not done an emerge sync since then, and on a whim I just did another > > emerge -aDvu world and it offered to install 6.8 again. Am I going to go > > through this sort of oscillation forever? Is there something I can do > > to stop it? > > ati-drivers will not stop xorg 6.8 from installing. It will pull it back > to 6.7 on the next pass though. Presumably, ati-drivers will offer a > version at some point that will support xorg 6.8, so it won't flip-flop > *forever*. > > You have a few choices, including: > > 1. remove ati-drivers and stay with xorg 6.8. wait for a new ati-drivers > that works with 6.8 to reinstall it. > 2. add ">=x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8" to /etc/portage/package.mask to prevent > the 6.8 upgrade from happening, and remove it once a newer ati-drivers > is available.
This makes perfect sense, but it illuminates my ignorance of things video. How do I learn enough to make an intelligent choice between the two options? That is: 1) What do I give up by dropping ati-drivers? 2) What do I gain by going with 6.8? The usual 5-word explanations I get on this list is not informative (for me), because they usually assume I know a great deal more than I seem to actually know. ++ kevin -- Go back to the top: I almost always top-post Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- [email protected] mailing list
