Re: [gentoo-user] xorg & nvidia (again) ;-(

2006-06-27 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Wed, Юни 28, 2006 12:16 am, David Klempner wrote: > Not only *can* you have xorg and xgl installed side by side, you *want* > to have xorg available. Of course. That's the reason I want to do this upgrade. The problem is I (still) can't find the right masks. Actually once I got it running but

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg & nvidia (again) ;-(

2006-06-27 Thread David Klempner
* Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-27 10:02]: > So I have to put the above pkgs in /etc/portage/package.mask > and do: > wget -O - http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-packages.txt > >> > /etc/portage/package.keywords > > After these steps I would be able to install Xorg

Re: More about: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg & nvidia (again) ;-(

2006-06-27 Thread Richard Fish
On 6/27/06, Alan E. Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nv has been ok. W/ dual opterons, even though not especially fast ones, these graphics intensive tasks have been performing well. Googleearth hasn't been working, either because of this issue, or amd64 incompatibility: it works well even with

Re: More about: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg & nvidia (again) ;-(

2006-06-27 Thread Alan E. Davis
On 6/28/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is being pulled in because you have VIDEO_CARDS=nvidia in /etc/make.conf. If you want only the opensource nv driver, you want "VIDEO_CARDS=nv" instead. Ok, I'll try this. What's IUSE="video_cards_nvidia ... etc " all about in the xine-l

Re: More about: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg & nvidia (again) ;-(

2006-06-27 Thread Richard Fish
On 6/27/06, Alan E. Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 1. Is this the ebuild that is pulling nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx back in? (I already unmerged nvidia-settings). This is being pulled in because you have VIDEO_CARDS=nvidia in /etc/make.conf. If you want only the opensource nv driver,

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg & nvidia (again) ;-(

2006-06-27 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 2:39 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > You don't need anything in package.mask to run Xorg 7, you just need to > keyword the various packages as ~x86 in /etc/portage/package.keywords. > Then you need to add some of the 7.1 packages to > /etc/portage/package.mask to prevent the conf

More about: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg & nvidia (again) ;-(

2006-06-27 Thread Alan E. Davis
I am thorougly confused: things must be moving very quickly with xorg 7. I hope my jumping in here will not further confuse the issue. I have found various descriptions of the roots of the problem, and various solutions involving masking different combinations of packages. I had decided to drop

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg & nvidia (again) ;-(

2006-06-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:18:28 +0300 (EEST), Daniel Iliev wrote: > I believe 7.0.* is the right version for my case. I've tried to put the > mask shown on the official Gentoo site about "migrating to mudular X". > Unfortunately for me that mask pulls version 7.1. Then I put "<=7.1" in > package.mask

[gentoo-user] xorg & nvidia (again) ;-(

2006-06-27 Thread Daniel Iliev
Good afternoon, everyone! I'm sorry to open such a thread again, but I found 2 topics regarding this issue here. It appears that one of them ("remove xorg-server to emerge nvidia-glx <=Normal?") had a solution but it was posted on a site (http://rafb.net/paste/results/HPsvCD94.html) which deletes t