On Thursday 14 September 2006 18:46, Dan Johansson wrote: > Today I did the "mistake" of re-emerging > (emerge --update --deep --verbose --newuse world --pretend > ) x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r8 as a result of a changed USE-flag > (GAPING_SECURITY_HOLE). Now when I try to do a new > emerge --update --deep --verbose --newuse world --pretend > I am getting a lot of blocked packages and emerge also wants to pull in a > lot of new packages. Here is a part of the output of the emerge....: > > [blocks B ] <=x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking > x11-proto/kbproto-1.0.3) [SNIP] > I have ">x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r8" in /etc/portage/package.mask > as I could not make my Laptop, with an ATI-videocard, work with the new > modular X. > > Any suggestions on how to solve this?
Well, my suggestion would be to remove the mask and upgrade to modular xorg-x11. It won't be long before monolithic X will be unsupported and removed from the tree... My ATI video card works just fine with modular X. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml -- Bo Andresen
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