On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 03:20:30PM -0800, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > Thanks for the info, is this really the recommended fix??? > > Remove nvidia-driver port, then upgrade xorg-clients. After that you can > reinstall nvidia-driver. > > I read the above as xorg-clients conflicts with nvidia-driver, if it was set > this way here is what portmanager would do: > > 1) when upgrading xorg-clients finds conflicting port nvidia-driver installed > and removes it unless user chooses otherwise before 5 minute timeout > > 2) Upgrade xorg-clients > > Athe this point something would have to have a dependency on nvidia-driver > for it to be pulled back in automatically else the user is going to need to > install it manaually... Well I can see how this situation is causing > problems > anyways....... > > Has this issue been resolved yet? From reading your references it seems > like this fixed the problem with xdriinfo.c: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=76257 > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed > State-Changed-By: anholt > State-Changed-When: Wed Nov 30 01:24:24 GMT 2005 > State-Changed-Why: > A patch has been committed to fix this. > > But I saw no other solution to handling the nvidia port. > > -Mike
I agree it seems a trifle convoluted, and yes, in the vast majority cases, portmanager does the right thing. However, for this one (in my experience, at least), it couldn't handle it. I don't remember removing the nvidia drivers, but I think I reinstalled portions of the XOrg subsystem, in particular the libs. As I said, though, I don't remember exactly how I got it all working again... Not much help, I'm afraid - I just wanted to point the OP at the threads on the other list (which I read only sporadically) in case they proved helpful. As to whether it's fixed yet, I really couldn't say - I belong firmly in the camp of end users, not developers or testers. A big thanks for portmanager - it's nice not to have to wrestle with the package db all the time! Dan -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3B9D 8BBB EB03 BA83 5DB4 3B88 86FC F03A 90A1 BE8F _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \
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