Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server upgrading problem
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: I already posted how do downgrade to 1.6.5 correctly :P I have a slightly different case, but related -- I tried the upgrade because I saw a message that the new nvidia drivers would actually work, but xorg-server 1.7.1 would not compile and so I followed the instructions in the bug 290739 comments 3 and 6 and xorg-server 1.6.5 and 1.6.4 which is the one I still have -- neither one will compile. In the 1.6.5 case I get errors in rensize.c. Thanks in advance for any ideas on how to fix. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com
[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server upgrading problem
On 11/09/2009 11:18 PM, Roy Wright wrote: On Nov 9, 2009, at 1:04 AM, Johannes Kimmel wrote: Try to resync and emerge the new eselect-opengl and run eselect opengl set nvidia again. This could fix it, as I had a similar problem. The old eselect did something wrong, but I can't remember exactly because it went somehow long yesterday :) Good catch, but unfortunately it didn't help. I've downgraded the nvidia drivers to 185.18.36-r1 which then loaded glx, but still not dri or dri2. Maybe I need to upgrade the kernel from 2.6.29... BTW, xorg-server-1.6.5 does work with nv drivers, but I need opengl. I'm currently trying to downgrade server to 1.6.3, but that's not compiling. Let's say I'm not very impressed with the xorg ebuild technique of specifying dependencies using =. xorg ebuilds should be holistic based on the xorg-server version. Instead I have to figure out the version masks for each of the dependencies. PITA! I already posted how do downgrade to 1.6.5 correctly :P
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server upgrading problem
On Nov 9, 2009, at 3:36 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 11/09/2009 11:18 PM, Roy Wright wrote: On Nov 9, 2009, at 1:04 AM, Johannes Kimmel wrote: Try to resync and emerge the new eselect-opengl and run eselect opengl set nvidia again. This could fix it, as I had a similar problem. The old eselect did something wrong, but I can't remember exactly because it went somehow long yesterday :) Good catch, but unfortunately it didn't help. I've downgraded the nvidia drivers to 185.18.36-r1 which then loaded glx, but still not dri or dri2. Maybe I need to upgrade the kernel from 2.6.29... BTW, xorg-server-1.6.5 does work with nv drivers, but I need opengl. I'm currently trying to downgrade server to 1.6.3, but that's not compiling. Let's say I'm not very impressed with the xorg ebuild technique of specifying dependencies using =. xorg ebuilds should be holistic based on the xorg-server version. Instead I have to figure out the version masks for each of the dependencies. PITA! I already posted how do downgrade to 1.6.5 correctly :P Sorry, forgot to mention that I did try those instructions. Didn't help. I'm currently punting, removing all of X from my system, then will start over... Thank you, Roy
[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server upgrading problem
On 11/09/2009 02:46 AM, Roy Wright wrote: Howdy, I have a home server/htpc (~x86) that I'm finally updating after a few months and I hit an issue with xorg-server. Here's the background: Was at xorg-server-1.6.3 and current sync tried to upgrade to 1.7.1, which failed to compile. In researching on b.g.o., discovered that nvidia has not released a driver yet that will work with 1.7.1, so followed the bug report directions and masked out several packages to prevent 1.7.1 upgrading. I think the bug about ati-drivers should help: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290739 From that bug, follow those two comments *exactly*: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290739#c3 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290739#c6 This should get you to a correctly installed 1.6.5 again.
