xorg-server-1.0.99 (is blocking media-video/nvidia-glx

CosminG · Apprentice Joined: 19 Jan 2005 Posts: 166

I have this problem:

Philantrop · Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 10:01 pm Post subject:

Yes, it's a known issue. There's an exclusion dependency in media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.8762 for newer X.org servers. According to Gentoo developers, there is an incompatibility between both packages.

I'm writing this on X.org X11 7.1 with media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.8762 running perfectly fine, though. On the other hand, I'm using quite a few packages that are new and not yet in portage so that might be the reason I'm having no problems at all.

You can try for yourself if you edit the ebuild for media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.8762. Below is a patch that shows what to do - namely delete the line prefixed by the "-".

Of course, I take no responsibility if you try this and kill your X, your nvidia drivers or anything else. If it works for you, don't blame the Gentoo devs either, please.

CosminG · Apprentice Joined: 19 Jan 2005 Posts: 166

Thanks. I think I will just wait for this bug to be fix than.

Maedhros · Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 8:30 am Post subject:

Moved from Desktop Environments to Duplicate Threads in favour of xorg-server-1.0.99.x ABI breaks nvidia/ati binary drivers.
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