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   Message 15,799 of 17,684   
   AZ Nomad to Wim Cossement   
   Re: nvidia-drivers versus xorg.server   
   12 Sep 07 02:01:30   
   
   From: aznomad.2@PremoveOBthisOX.COM   
      
   On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:17:44 +0200, Wim Cossement  wrote:   
      
      
   >AZ Nomad wrote:   
   >> On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 06:37:49 +0200, J.O. Aho  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>> AZ Nomad wrote:   
   >>>> nvidia-drivers now blocks xorg-server-1.4   
   >>>> What gives?  Has nvidia-drivers been pulled into xorg-server?   
   >>>> Do I have to quit using a portage package to install the nvidia drivers   
   and   
   >>>> instead should get the nvidia .run installer from nvidia directly?   
   >>   
   >>> Xorg 7.3 has changed ABI, which makes that the current nVidia driver won't   
   >>> work with the new Xorg.   
   >>   
   >>> You can of course force the install and then you need to disable composite   
   in   
   >>> your xorg.conf and then use "startx -- -ignoreABI" to start Xorg, but be   
   >>> warned, this won't work for all.   
   >>   
   >> Also:  I figured I'd revert to stable xorg, and commented out all the   
   >> x11 lines in my package.keywords (w/ ~amd64).  Now I have a system that   
   can't   
   >> compile xf86-input-keyboard, getting a missing xf86OSKbd.h error on the   
   >> build.  I rebuilt everything that xf86-input-keyboard depends on, but no   
   >> luck.   
      
   >That header should be in /usr/include/xorg/, it's a part of   
   >xorg-server-1.3.0.0 according to equery (a part of gentoolkit).   
      
   The problem was that I still had xorg-server-1.4.  I unmerged it, did another   
   emerge -D world and it emerged xorg-server-1.3 before xf86-input-keyboard. It   
   was xorg-server-1.3 that had that missing xf86OSKbd.h file.   
      
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