On Sat, Юли 1, 2006 10:10 pm, Bo Г�rsted Andresen wrote: > On Saturday 01 July 2006 21:00, Daniel Iliev wrote: >> Will this mask work for nvidia cards too? > > You really need to learn how to explain a question clearly... The libdrm > package in an overlay had no keywords. OP wanted to use it. That has nothing > to do with any particular graphics card... If you experience that any package > is masked by missing keyword then you can add '-* ~*' keywords to the > acceptable keywords for that package in /etc/portage/package.keywords. But > since masked by missing keyword means that the package is literally untested > on your arch it also means that noone can tell you if it will work as in > compile and be functional. It will just tell portage to portage that it is > okay to emerge it... > > -- > Bo Andresen >
First, thanks for the reply. I didn't know what "masked by missing keyword" means. Second, you're right about the the lack of clarity in my question. I'm sorry about that. Please, let me try to explain what I had in mind. ===correct me if I'm wrong=== I think Nvidia cards do not work with DRI as all other cards, but they use their own glx and kernel drivers for direct rendering. So direct rendering manager [DRM] doesn't apply to NVidia's closed source drivers. ===correct me if I'm wrong=== I want to emerge Xgl even it's considered to be unstable. So in this context my question was "(1) will unmasking libdrm break something, kick my dog...etc :) if merged together with nvidia's binary drivers and (2) is unmasking libdrm enough to install Xgl?" I really want to install Xgl very much. No matter if it is unstable or if it has bugs. Please, help me. -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
