>=xorg-server-1.0.99 blocks nvidia/ati binary drivers

[suck_ma_penguin]

Everything works fine in the stable branch, and there has been plenty of warning on here. If you run ~arch, then you have to accept that sometimes stuff breaks. Hence UNstable.

[marcos]

I had the same problem. Ran emerge sync (yesterday) and the problem disappeared.

[Master_d]

I want to try Xgl to see if it works but I uninstalled nvidia-glx in order to install the new xorg-xerver and now I can't start xgl because I need nvidia glx. I don't want to downgrade xorg and I cannot reinstall nvidia glx because it is blocked. is there a way to force it to install even though it's not supposed to work with the new xorg? I just want to see if Xgl will still work

edit: how does portage know what blocks what? is there a file that tells portage which packages should not be installed together?
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[NaiL]

you can found that in the nvidia-glx ebuild.

[CloudBolt]

[Master_d]

[NaiL]

Well i don't recomend you to do so. xD

If you have time is better to have a overlay directory and put your stuff there.

i think there is some tutorial for this... wait a minute

yes there is one http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Installing_3rd_Party_Ebuilds

[CosminG]

xorg 7.1 with latest nvidia with xgl works

[ennservogt]

@CosminG: What versions of nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel do you use? What computer do you have (especially cpu and architecture)? Looking forward to hear from you.

[CosminG]

I have

[blk_jack]

[m4chine]

you can always use

[s1n]

What are the rules that determines what packages are masked in the official portage tree? I do not understand why if so many people are reporting problems that the latest xorg server has not been masked. It may be many more moons before NVidia updates their drivers, so I cannot perform any updates unless I manually mask it myself? Someone really dropped the ball on this one; who's responsible for this??

[sternklang]

[micko]

Xorg-server-1.1.0-r2 and nvidia-glx are working fine IF I start X with startx. If however I use a DM, the font's won't work. With startx I don't even have to add --ingoreABI switch (or whatever that was).

I tried to compare DM's initscript with startx-script but the stuff went way over my head. Would anyone know what the difference between those two is?

[Bigun]

Any ideas of when the latest nvidia drivers will be in portage?
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[radfoj]

[sternklang]

The latest nvidia drivers are in Portage. nvidia-drivers that work properly with xorg 7.1 have not yet been released. I haven't been to the nvnews forums recently to see if there's further info on when they've been released.

[Bigun]

[sternklang]

I just did a quick check on the nvnews forums. According to NVidia devs who post there, no release date has been set by NVidia. A forum moderator there said the unofficial date NVidia is looking at is in August. I don't know what, if any, real information there is behind that.

Others have pointed out NVidia's history of a major driver release every six months (with bugfix releases happening more frequently). By that metric, November would be the likely date.

The likelihood is that this driver will also include the GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap opengl extension allowing it to deliver maximum performance under Xgl and AIGLX (it won't work at all with AIGLX until this is implemented). In their eyes, there is probably not a big enough base of Linux users to justify release engineering for two major driver releases, one for ABI support and one for AIGLX/Xgl support. That would make a later date more likely.

[stahlsau]

[lachish]

I am running on an IBM Thinkpad 43P, that contains an ATI chipset. I followed sternklang's post on page one of this thread, and used EXACTLY the same lines in package.mask (even though his is a NVidia card), and ran "emerge --update world".
My system runs perfectly with the ATI driver set like it did before my upgrade of xorg-server.

The downgrade fixed all issues, and OpenGL is working fine.

I could NOT use the Xgl package as a workaround, because I depend on VMware Workstation for my job, and there are issues with that app.

Anyway, my thanks to sternklang!

[nahpets]

Last night I rebooted my machine, and then Xorg wouldn't start because of problems loading the Xorg ATI drivers. I have a dual-head setup that goes like this:

1. Screen 0: Nvidia Gforce4 MMX 440 (AGP)
   
2. Screen 1: ATI Radeon 7000 (PCI)
   

In saw that the 'x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati' had a newer version in portage that I needed to unmask with the '~x86' keyword which also required unmasking 'xorg-server'. I have now upgraded xorg-server to version 1.1.1 which also pulled in 'media-libs/mesa'.

Ok, so the good news is that the Xorg ATI driver is working again, but the 'nvidia' driver won't load because of missing GLX extensions. I tried emerging the new 'x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers' which include GLX and I get this:

[coolsnowmen]

seriously, type in your subject into the forums search

you might have gotten something close to this

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-446362-highlight-xorgserver+blocking+nvidia.html
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-458721-highlight-xorgserver+blocking+nvidia.html

[barfo]

just my two cents, others might disagree...

i emerged --nodeps the nvidia drivers when i received this error and all is ok. there were some problems with fonts immediately after though the quick fix is to set renderaccel = "false" in your xorg.conf - you may also need to set render = "false" - i did. from what i read, the font problems may be more severe with kde - i use fluxbox.

there are proper solutions to this problem out there, however i ran into endless problems with each and eventually gave up, fixing it the brutal way.