Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> > Hi. In my latest world update, eselect-opengl had a new version with
> > very bad consequences -- it uninstalled the X server, and all drivers
> > were gone. I am using the nvidia drivers and they seemed to be
> > installed, but they did not work even after reinstalling the server, but
> > after downgrading eselect-opengl back to 1.27, mesa and glproto (may
> > have slightly wrong name), things are back to normal, but what the heck
> > is happening? I saw nothing in bgo, but we had a thread on here a while
> > ago, but even that thread didn't say the the server would be
> > uninstalled.
> >
> > Any ideas? Are they going to fix? I have masked things off for now.
> >
>
> I'm not sure if it will help or not but here is some info from mine:
>
> root@fireball / # equery list eselect xorg-server nvidia-drivers
> * Searching for eselect ...
> [IP-] [ ] app-admin/eselect-1.4.3:0
>
> * Searching for xorg-server ...
> [IP-] [ ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.16.3-r1:0/1.16.1
>
> * Searching for nvidia-drivers ...
> [IP-] [ ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-340.76:0
> root@fireball / # eselect opengl list
> Available OpenGL implementations:
> [1] nvidia *
> [2] xorg-x11
> root@fireball / #
>
> I use KDE, fluxbox as a backup, and no issues, yet. I just may need
> more time to find it tho. lol
>
> Oh, I recall that when I rebuild mesa, I have to set opengl to use the
> xorg version instead of nvidia. After the update is done, I can switch
> it back. May not be related but if it is the only straw you have, grab
> it and see.
It was bringing in x-server-17 something along with
eselect-opengl-3. something and this is where the problems occurred, so
I downgraded xserver to 16.4 something downgraded mesa and that glproto
business and all is well, but what a major disaster. This is the ~
version that I am running, by the way.
--
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
