Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote on 30/06/06 13:55: >> The stable branch xorg-x11 seems to have been upgraded to version >> xorg-x11-7.0-r1.
> Just follow [1]. >> However, emerge -puDNv world shows the new x11-xorg blocked by >> xorg-x11-6.9. >> I don't understand this, as I have xorg-x11-6.8.2-r8 installed. > Read more carefully. It's blocked by '<=x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9'. Note the less > than sign. Oops, my mistake. >> OK, the new meta-package may be very nice, but I really don't want to >> compile all the drivers for devices I don't have on my system. At the >> moment I use the proprietary nvidia drivers; are these supported under >> xorg-x11-7.0? > Then set VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" in /etc/make.conf. It's all covered in [1]. > [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml Bo, Dirk, thanks for the information. I'll get to work on this (major) update. I'll add the nv driver to VIDEO_CARDS as well to have a fall back in case the binary nvidia drivers won't work with the new x11. Cheers, Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
