Mailing List Archive: nvidia module

nvidia module

Oct 8, 2004, 10:58 AM

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This is the err msg that I got while I'm tring to emerge nvidia-glx
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bash-2.05b# emerge nvidia-glx
Calculating dependencies ...done!

!!! Error: the x11-base/xorg-x11 package conflicts with another package.
!!! both can't be installed on the same system together.
!!! Please use 'emerge --pretend' to determine blockers.

bash-2.05b# emerge --pretend nvidia-glx

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[blocks B ] x11-base/xorg-x11 (from pkg x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r6)
[blocks B ] x11-base/xorg-x11 ("virtual/x11" from pkg
x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r6)
[ebuild N ] app-arch/cabextract-1.0
[ebuild N ] x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r6
[ebuild N ] media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.4496
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Is their any way to avoid this?

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Re: nvidia module [ In reply to ]

aherrman at gmail

Oct 8, 2004, 12:34 PM

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On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 17:58:15 +0000, Kesara Rathnayake <kesara3k@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is the err msg that I got while I'm tring to emerge nvidia-glx
> =======================
> bash-2.05b# emerge nvidia-glx
> Calculating dependencies ...done!
>
> !!! Error: the x11-base/xorg-x11 package conflicts with another package.
> !!! both can't be installed on the same system together.
> !!! Please use 'emerge --pretend' to determine blockers.
>
> bash-2.05b# emerge --pretend nvidia-glx
>
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies ...done!
> [blocks B ] x11-base/xorg-x11 (from pkg x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r6)
> [blocks B ] x11-base/xorg-x11 ("virtual/x11" from pkg
> x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r6)
> [ebuild N ] app-arch/cabextract-1.0
> [ebuild N ] x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r6
> [ebuild N ] media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.4496
> ==========================
> Is their any way to avoid this?
>
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> kesara rathnayake
> +94 071 4795423
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>
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>

Are you using xorg or xfree?
I believe the older nvidia drivers (pre .6XXX) weren't using
virtual/x11 for the X dependency, but had xfree hard coded in. If you
try to emerge them then it will want to pull down xfree. This causes
problems if you have xorg.

Why not use one of the newer ones? I'm using the latest (~x86) and
haven't had any problems with it.

-Andy

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Re: nvidia module [ In reply to ]

kryos.icedragon at gmail

Oct 9, 2004, 4:25 AM

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On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 15:34:20 -0400, Andy Herrman <aherrman@gmail.com> wrote:
> Are you using xorg or xfree?
> I believe the older nvidia drivers (pre .6XXX) weren't using
> virtual/x11 for the X dependency, but had xfree hard coded in. If you
> try to emerge them then it will want to pull down xfree. This causes
> problems if you have xorg.

I believe Andy's right. However, if you don't want to use masked
packages, you can emerge -i the xfree package. This will tell portage
to treat it as installed, even though it's not.

Doug

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