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BeteNoire
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 Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 1:10 pm Post subject: Is it safe to upgrade xorg to 1.7 on system with GF FX 5200? |
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Hi, I got this office machine with GeForce FX 5200 that simply cannot be left without working X. It's on ~x86 keyword.
I have some packages to update and need to know if it's compeletly safe to do it.
| Code: | emerge -uDN world
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild U ] x11-proto/xcmiscproto-1.2.0 [1.1.2]
[ebuild U ] x11-proto/bigreqsproto-1.1.0 [1.0.2]
[ebuild U ] x11-proto/xf86driproto-2.1.0 [2.0.4]
[ebuild U ] x11-proto/xf86bigfontproto-1.2.0 [1.1.2]
[ebuild U ] x11-base/xorg-drivers-1.7 [1.6]
[ebuild U ] x11-proto/inputproto-2.0 [1.5.1]
[ebuild U ] x11-proto/xextproto-7.1.1 [7.0.5]
[ebuild U ] x11-libs/libX11-1.3.2 [1.2.2] USE="-test%"
[ebuild U ] x11-proto/fixesproto-4.1.1 [4.0]
[ebuild U ] x11-libs/libXext-1.1.1 [1.0.5]
[blocks b ] <x11-libs/libXext-1.0.99 ("<x11-libs/libXext-1.0.99" is blocking x11-proto/xextproto-7.1.1)
[ebuild U ] x11-libs/libXi-1.3 [1.2.1]
[blocks b ] <x11-libs/libXi-1.2.99 ("<x11-libs/libXi-1.2.99" is blocking x11-proto/inputproto-2.0)
[ebuild U ] x11-proto/scrnsaverproto-1.2.0 [1.1.0]
[ebuild U ] x11-libs/libXScrnSaver-1.2.0 [1.1.3]
[blocks b ] <x11-libs/libXScrnSaver-1.2 ("<x11-libs/libXScrnSaver-1.2" is blocking x11-proto/scrnsaverproto-1.2.0)
[ebuild U ] x11-proto/xf86dgaproto-2.1 [2.0.3]
[ebuild U ] x11-libs/libXxf86dga-1.1.1 [1.0.2]
[blocks b ] <x11-libs/libXxf86dga-1.0.99.1 ("<x11-libs/libXxf86dga-1.0.99.1" is blocking x11-proto/xf86dgaproto-2.1)
[ebuild U ] x11-proto/recordproto-1.14 [1.13.2]
[ebuild U ] x11-libs/libXtst-1.1.0 [1.0.3]
[blocks b ] <x11-libs/libXtst-1.0.99.2 ("<x11-libs/libXtst-1.0.99.2" is blocking x11-proto/recordproto-1.14)
[ebuild U ] x11-proto/xf86vidmodeproto-2.3 [2.2.2]
[ebuild U ] x11-libs/libXxf86vm-1.1.0 [1.0.2]
[blocks b ] <x11-libs/libXxf86vm-1.0.99.1 ("<x11-libs/libXxf86vm-1.0.99.1" is blocking x11-proto/xf86vidmodeproto-2.3)
[ebuild U ] x11-proto/dmxproto-2.3 [2.2.2]
[ebuild U ] x11-libs/libdmx-1.1.0 [1.0.2]
[blocks b ] <x11-libs/libdmx-1.0.99.1 ("<x11-libs/libdmx-1.0.99.1" is blocking x11-proto/dmxproto-2.3)
[ebuild U ] x11-proto/xineramaproto-1.2 [1.1.2]
[ebuild U ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.7.1 [1.6.5-r1]
[ebuild U ] x11-libs/libXinerama-1.1 [1.0.3]
[blocks b ] <x11-libs/libXinerama-1.0.99.1 ("<x11-libs/libXinerama-1.0.99.1" is blocking x11-proto/xineramaproto-1.2) |
I would appreciate if users owning same graphic card confirmed that they've succesfully upgraded to xorg 1.7 with its deps.
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Hupf
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| Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 1:24 pm Post subject: |
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If you're using nvidia-drivers, then it seems that only the 173.x legacy series is compatible with your card. Now see e.g. http://blog.cardoe.com/archives/2009/10/29/nvidia-drivers-and-xorg-server-compatiblity/ - only the 190.x series of drivers is ABI compatible with xorg-server-1.7.
One way to go would be to use the nv or nouveau driver, then you should be safe, but would have to test the available features (xinerama, randr, 3d) on your card. |
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BeteNoire
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| Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 1:56 pm Post subject: |
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Thx for reply and the link.
That:
| Quote: | | However, for users of the 96.43.x and 173.14.x series, NVIDIA has confirmed to me that there will be an update to the latest xorg-server ABI change. |
gave me a thought. I've checked nvidia-drivers changelog and it says:
| Code: | *nvidia-drivers-173.14.22 (13 Nov 2009)
13 Nov 2009; Doug Goldstein <cardoe@gentoo.org>
+nvidia-drivers-173.14.22.ebuild:
version bump for xorg-server 1.7 support. ebuild uses the refactored
ebuild as a base |
so I still need someone to confirm it works flawlessly for him 
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| Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 2:53 pm Post subject: |
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| One of my friend use an old nvidia card and he is actually running Xorg-Server 1.7, so yes you can go for it, but make sure that you use the nvidia-drivers 173x serie package. |
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