On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:37:05 -0600 Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Howdy, > > On my older x86 machine, I get this when trying to update: > > WARNING: One or more updates have been skipped due to a dependency > conflict: > > x11-base/xorg-server:0 > > (x11-base/xorg-server-1.11.2-r2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) > conflicts with > <x11-base/xorg-server-1.11 required by > (x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.31::gentoo, installed) > > > I thought maybe I needed to unmask or remove the keyword at first so I > wanted to see what version I could fiddle with to get this to work. > So, I get this: > > root@smoker / # equery list -p x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers > * Searching for nvidia-drivers in x11-drivers ... > [-P-] [ ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-96.43.20:0 > [IP-] [ ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.31:0 > [-P-] [M ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-275.09.07:0 > [-P-] [M~] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-275.28:0 > [-P-] [M~] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-275.36:0 > [-P-] [M ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-285.05.09-r1:0 > [-P-] [M~] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-290.06:0 > [-P-] [M ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-290.10:0 > [-P-] [M~] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-290.10-r1:0 > root@smoker / # equery list -p x11-base/xorg-server > * Searching for xorg-server in x11-base ... > [-P-] [ ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.9.5-r1:0 > [IP-] [ ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.10.4-r1:0 > [-P-] [ ~] x11-base/xorg-server-1.11.2-r1:0 > [-P-] [ ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.11.2-r2:0 > [-P-] [ ~] x11-base/xorg-server-1.11.3:0 > [-P-] [ ~] x11-base/xorg-server-1.11.4:0 > [-P-] [M~] x11-base/xorg-server-1.11.99.902:0 > root@smoker / # > > > So, the nvidia driver I am using is the only version for my card. > But I can't upgrade xorg either. Well, I think this may be a bug or > something. What does the list think? Is there a way around this? > > Thanks much. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > P. S. That time of year. May be a bit before I get to read replies. > Same issue with an 8400GS. I played with it and couldn't get it to work at all together. I think I uninstalled the nVidia driver upgraded and tried to reinstall the nVidia driver. No luck. Wouldn't recognize the card properly! Been awhile but I think that was it! -- Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com
