On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogor...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Alex Schuster <wo...@wonkology.org> wrote: >> Volker Armin Hemmann writes: >> >>> On Freitag 22 Mai 2009, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >>> > x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 won't compile due to a file conflict, >>> > but portageq does not see it. >> >> Probably because the ati-drivers you already have installed do not have this >> file, either because they are an older version, or they did not create it >> when compiling against the old x.org. >> >>> > Anybody know how to work around this? >> >>> yes, remove /usr/lib/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so it should be owned >>> by ati-drivers, if not, some screw up happened. >> >> Or use 'FEATURES=-collision-protect emerge ati-drivers'. I think I had the >> same collision. >> >>> /me wonders why there is still a stone old buggy ebuild/driver in >>> 'stable'. >> >> I was not able to compile newer ati-drivers with tuxonice-sources-2.6.28-r3. >> Or ANY ati-drivers with a newer tuxonice kernel. >> > > I thank you for the expert advice. I'm doing the emerge now, but even > if it succeeds, I'm worried that the xorg-server will still own this > file, since portageq seems to see that it does. This seems inherently > wrong. > > Sigh. I'm too far along to flinch now, so if this emerges, I'll > probably restart X. > > Wish me luck.
Hmm. Even with the FEATURES option from the suggestion, I get exactly the same error message. I cut-and-pasted it, but I wonder if it's spelled right? I'm going to try just deleting (well, renaming) the file, hoping that this will work... -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
