Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Monday 21 December 2009 18:48:25 Christian Könitzer wrote:
Hi list,
I'm using a quite old NVIDIA card aqnd it worked well but since a few
days it seams to be deprecated. After a eix --sync I got this:
emerge -DuN world
Calculating dependencies... done!
emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "<x11-base/xorg-server-1.4.99".
(dependency required by "x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-71.86.11" [installed])
(dependency required by "world" [argument])
And eix tells me:
eix x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
[D] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
Available versions: [M]71.86.09!s [M]71.86.11!s [m]96.43.13!s
[m](~)96.43.14!s [m]173.14.20!s [m](~)173.14.20-r1!s [m](~)173.14.22!s
[m]180.60!s [m]185.18.36!s [m](~)185.18.36-r1!s [m](~)190.29!s
[m](~)190.42-r2!s [m](~)190.42-r3!s {acpi custom-cflags gtk
kernel_FreeBSD kernel_linux multilib userland_BSD}
Installed versions: 71.86.11!s(10:52:39 23.10.2009)(acpi gtk
kernel_linux -custom-cflags -kernel_FreeBSD -multilib -userland_BSD)
Homepage: http://www.nvidia.com/
Description: NVIDIA X11 driver and GLX libraries
Your version of nvidia-drivers is listed as hardmasked in
profiles/package.mask:
# Mask nvidia-drivers-71.x.y since it will not work
# with xorg-server-1.5 and later which are the only
# available versions in the tree
<x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-72.0.0
You will need to find an ebuild for the version of xorg you need in an overlay
somewhere, or search the gentoo attic
You'll have to google for the URL for the attic, it's one of those things I
can never remember...
Is this it?
http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/
Dale
:-) :-)