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Deathscythe
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 Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2004 4:39 pm Post subject: Nvidia driver doesn't like Xorg |
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I just did a fresh install of Xorg on my PC. When I try to emerge the nvidia binary driver, it complains about Xorg already installed and wants to use XFree instead.
All I did was.
| Code: | | emerge -p nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx |
And I get this message on the screen.
| Code: | These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[blocks B ] x11-base/xorg-x11 ("virtual/x11" from pkg x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r5)
[blocks B ] x11-base/xorg-x11 (from pkg x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r5)
[ebuild N ] media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.4496-r3
[ebuild N ] x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r5
[ebuild N ] media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.4496 |
How can I emerge nvidia driver that works with Xorg?
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blueworm
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| Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2004 4:44 pm Post subject: |
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try using nodeps option like this.
| Code: | | emerge nvidia-kernel --nodeps |
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codergeek42
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| Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2004 5:03 pm Post subject: |
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This means that the nvidia driver ebuilds depend on x11-base/xfree rather than virtual/x11 as they should. This should be reported as a bug on bugs.gentoo.org, and you should be able to fix it by doing | Code: | | # emerge --inject "=x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r5" |
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Deathscythe
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| Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2004 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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That does the trick, thanks 
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Sastraxi
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| Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2004 6:28 pm Post subject: |
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It'll cause problems when you attempt a world upgrade (just upgrading all of your packages), but, you know, if it works now... 
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Fibbs
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| Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2004 6:42 pm Post subject: |
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I recently had the same problem as described here.
I solved it putting the following in my /etc/portage/package.keywords
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=nvidia-kernel-1.0.6106 ~x86
=nvidia-glx-1.0.6106 ~x86
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emerge nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx
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The new version of nvidia-glx is fixed and depends on virtual/x11 as it has to.
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