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   Wim Cossement to AZ Nomad   
   Re: nvidia-drivers versus xorg.server   
   12 Sep 07 10:30:46   
   
   From: a@b.c   
      
   AZ Nomad wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Well I checked it on a machine that had been updated the day befor   
   yesterday, but the file should be there. My box still has   
   xorg-serve-1.2.0-r3 but the file is also present there so it's odd it   
   was missing.   
      
   Wimmy   
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