quoth the Lord Sauron: > > I tried that, and emerge --pretend promptly told me that xorg 6.9 or > something was blocking virtually everything x-related. > It was really > weird.
Not weird, it wants you to install Xorg 7.0 which is modular. Ie: you must unmerge Xorg 6.x altogether and then reinstall. xorg-x11 is now a virtual package which brings in all the now modular parts that you need. See: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
