Bug 176648 – x11-base/xorg-server-1.3.0.0 is blocking x11-drivers/nvidia{,-legacy}-drivers

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Timo Rothweiler 2007-05-01 07:26:19 UTC]

I noticed that since today, x11-base/xorg-server-1.3.0.0 is blocking x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers.

xorg-server's changelog says:
  01 May 2007; Donnie Berkholz <[e-mail]>;
  xorg-server-1.3.0.0.ebuild:
  Remove VIDEO_CARDS flags for binary drivers and block binary ati and nvidia
  drivers, since none of them work yet with 1.3. Since we aren't yet sure
  which versions will, block them unconditionally for now and add appropriate
  dependencies later.

Now I want to report, that for me x11-base/xorg-server-1.3.0.0 has been working without any problems with nvidia-drivers-1.0.9755-r1.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) 2007-05-01 07:46:41 UTC]

Fixed in CVS.

[Comment 2 Cybertinus 2007-05-01 08:06:22 UTC]

You can fix it yourself also :). Just re-enter the support for the binary nVidia/ATi-drivers. What you must do for it? Check the diff between version 1.2.0.0 and 1.3.0.0 of the ebuild: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/x11-base/xorg-server/xorg-server-1.3.0.0.ebuild?r1=1.2&r2=1.3

Works here :)

[Comment 3 Timo Rothweiler 2007-05-01 08:15:32 UTC]

Thanks for the fast reaction. :)

To Cybertinus:
I wasn't really looking for a fast fix, actually I wanted to report what was working for me, because the changelog said that they weren't sure about it.

[Comment 4 Ben de Groot (RETIRED) 2007-05-01 08:32:04 UTC]

You could also just download the previous version of the ebuild.
http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/gentoo-x86/x11-base/xorg-server/xorg-server-1.3.0.0.ebuild?rev=1.2 

[Comment 5 Cybertinus 2007-05-01 08:36:37 UTC]

To Timo Rothweiler:

true. Maybe you arn't looking for a quick fix, but somebody else who reads this bus is looking for such a fix :), then he can find it here.

[Comment 6 Jakub Moc 2007-05-01 09:28:29 UTC]

1.0.9631-r1 works just perfectly fine, and is the only drivers version usable w/ older cards. Remove this pointless blocker, thanks.

[Comment 7 jcat 2007-05-01 12:39:04 UTC]

nvidia-drivers-1.0.9755-r1 works fine with xorg-server-1.3.0.0 on my x86 system.  No issues as far as I can tell.

Just thought I'd chip in and try and get this block removed, compatibility  seems fine.

[Comment 8 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2007-05-01 12:45:36 UTC]

*** Bug 176650 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 9 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2007-05-01 12:47:48 UTC]

I've removed blockers from >=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.9631-r1 since there seems to be no problems. Problem in bug 175503 seems to be only with ati-drivers. So what about nvidia-legacy-drivers and 8xxx series of nvidia-drivers?

[Comment 10 Patrick Fourniols 2007-05-02 08:37:14 UTC]

x11-drivers/nvidia-legacy-drivers-1.0.7184 work fine with xorg-server-1.3 but don't have any game on my machine to test dri ;)
on :
System uname: 2.6.21-gentoo i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1900+
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.10
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 02 May 2007 05:00:01 +0000

[Comment 11 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) 2007-05-03 05:06:12 UTC]

*** Bug 176878 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 12 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-05-03 08:43:01 UTC]

Can we remove all the nvidia blockers? Bug 175503 clearly only affects ati-drivers.

[Comment 13 genbug 2007-05-03 10:08:30 UTC]

#broken on GF4200 Ti
=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.9629
=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.9631
=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.9746

I have had to specifically mask the above that do not work with my card.

It seems like the dev policy here is to block everything and see who screams.

So I'm screaming ;)

please can the version block be rolled back to at least 9296  , the last nvidia-drivers that I was able to make work on my system?

thx

[Comment 14 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2007-05-03 11:49:39 UTC]

(In reply to comment #13)
> #broken on GF4200 Ti
> =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.9629
> =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.9631
> =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.9746
> 
> I have had to specifically mask the above that do not work with my card.
> 
> It seems like the dev policy here is to block everything and see who screams.
> 
> So I'm screaming ;)
> 
> please can the version block be rolled back to at least 9296  , the last
> nvidia-drivers that I was able to make work on my system?
> 
> thx
> 

NVidia has dropped support for your card long time ago, 

http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-9755/README/appendix-a.html

Below are the legacy GPUs that are no longer supported in the unified driver. These GPUs will continue to be maintained through the special legacy NVIDIA GPU driver releases.

The 1.0-96xx driver supports the following set of GPUs:

GeForce4 Ti 4200 	0x0253

[Comment 15 Mark 2007-05-03 18:33:11 UTC]

(In reply to comment #10)
> x11-drivers/nvidia-legacy-drivers-1.0.7184 work fine with xorg-server-1.3 but
> don't have any game on my machine to test dri ;)

Same for me with same legacy-drivers version and a:
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev b2)

DRI & OpenGL apps working fine!

[Comment 16 Preston Crow 2007-05-04 14:00:57 UTC]

I'm running 1.3.0.0 with nvidia-drivers-1.0.8776-r1 with no issues.

(I've had bad luck with the 9xxx drivers with interlaced modes and pulling in more modes than I want from the EDID)

[Comment 17 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2007-05-04 16:49:32 UTC]

(In reply to comment #12)
> Can we remove all the nvidia blockers? Bug 175503 clearly only affects
> ati-drivers.
> 

Done.