Bug 132696 – xorg-x11 7.1 RC meta-ebuild needed for correct driver/server dependencies

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Michal Suchanek 2006-05-08 10:27:59 UTC]

Since xorg-server has some special handling of drivers (ie the VIDEO_CARDS variable) I would expect it to pull in the right versions of the drivers.

After upgrading xorg-server I had to manually upgrade xf86-video-ati for X server to start (because the driver had a different abi version). I have ati and radeon in the VIDEO_CARDS variable.

I guess the same applies for input drivers.

I wonder if there can be some driver slots to keep around drivers of different abi versions so that the X server can be upgraded and downgraded easily.

[Comment 1 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) 2006-05-08 19:25:03 UTC]

xorg-server is not responsible for pulling in video drivers.  The xorg-x11 ebuild currently does that.  Something I've been meaning to do is put an appropriate xorg-x11 7.1 RC ebuild into the tree, which would mostly solve this problem.

[Comment 2 Michal Suchanek 2006-05-09 05:39:17 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> xorg-server is not responsible for pulling in video drivers.  The xorg-x11
> ebuild currently does that.  Something I've been meaning to do is put an
> appropriate xorg-x11 7.1 RC ebuild into the tree, which would mostly solve this
> problem.

In my view it is the X server that needs the drivers and should depend on them. But a new xorg-x11 ebuild would probably fix the problem for me anyway.

Thanks

[Comment 3 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) 2006-05-13 08:37:53 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> In my view it is the X server that needs the drivers and should depend on them.

This solution has been implemented in CVS.

[Comment 4 Michal Suchanek 2006-06-13 10:09:05 UTC]

Xorg 7.0 also requires correct server/driver dependencies.

Is it covered here or should I file a separate bug for that?

[Comment 5 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) 2006-06-18 09:21:23 UTC]

Since we'll be dropping 7.0 from the tree when ATI/nVidia release drivers that work with it, there's not much reason to fix it there.

[Comment 6 Michal Suchanek 2006-08-29 15:06:51 UTC]

now 7.0 is stable, and still has the weir dependencies

[Comment 7 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) 2006-08-31 10:04:13 UTC]

Yes, that's what I said :)

If you really want the fixed deps, unmask the 7.1 server and its dependencies.  The only reason it's not stable yet is because the ATI and nVidia drivers that support 7.1 aren't stable yet.

[Comment 8 Michal Suchanek 2006-09-04 05:07:01 UTC]

It won't work. 7.1 crashes for me on ATI, even without DRI.

[Comment 9 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) 2006-09-05 08:08:35 UTC]

Please file a new bug regarding that issue, and include your X logs and 'emerge --info' output.

[Comment 10 Michal Suchanek 2006-09-06 01:39:46 UTC]

bug 134395

It's there for quite some time.

Upstream is not fixing it yet - perhaps its not that easy.