On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:57:43 +0200 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Friday 29 September 2006 14:46, John Newman wrote: > [SNIP] > > But later on I decided what the hell, I may as well upgrade X. > > However, when I attempt emerge xorg-base/xorg-x11, I get a whole > > list of "Blocked" packages, the gist of it being my installation of > > x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 is blocking... everything. > > Actually it says <x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 or something like that (you > obviously didn't bother to show us...). You are running > xorg-x11-6.8.x. > > > I was thinking that > > emerge could handle this type of situation since I'm doing an > > upgrade - that it would unmerge the old stuff and emerge the new > > stuff as it went along. > > Nope. > > > Is my only option to manually unmerge my current > > x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (and I have hundreds of packages I've > > emerge'd that depend on it, naturally), then emerge > > x11-base/xorg-x11 to get the new version (7.1 I believe?). Or is > > there a better way? > > I believe the upgrade guide should suffice [1]. And yes, it does tell > you to unmerge the old xorg-x11. Just follow that guide and you > should be fine... > > [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml
Unmerging xorg-x11-6.9 and then emerging xorg-x11-7.0 does indeed work! The unmerge was down with bated breath :-> The emerge went well and the system has been working well, though a problem has surfaced that I think is related. I've got an ATI Radeon card and was using ATI's official drivers which are xorg-x11-6.x compatible. Since ATI's drivers are not 7.x compatible I'm not using them. About the time of the change I noticed that fonts weren't looking as good as I recalled them being and suspect it's related. Sigh ... Any suggestions? Regards, David -- [email protected] mailing list
