Nvidia has said themselves that this driver is compatible with the Xorg 13 ABI, there is no reason to have the arbitrarily package block on xorg-server in the current ebuild. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge nvidia-drivers Actual Results: xorg-1.12.99.904 is blocked due to nvidia drivers. Expected Results: xorg should update to 1.12.99.904.
They've said it has initial support. Very different from actual complete support for the ABI. Read their forums, users are complaining about lots of crashes with 1.12.99.x series X.org servers. No sense in subjecting all Gentoo users to that senseless instability when we can wait 1 more release when they stabilize their Video 13 ABI compatibility.
*** Bug 432372 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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(In reply to comment #0) > Nvidia has said themselves that this driver is compatible with the Xorg 13 > ABI, there is no reason to have the arbitrarily package block on xorg-server > in the current ebuild. > > Reproducible: Always > > Steps to Reproduce: > 1. emerge nvidia-drivers > Actual Results: > xorg-1.12.99.904 is blocked due to nvidia drivers. > > Expected Results: > xorg should update to 1.12.99.904. Adam, if you don't believe there are issues with 304.37 and the xorg pre-13 beta releases all you have to do is comment the the line <x11-base/xorg-server-1.13.99 in the ebuild in your personal overlay. However, you have been warned that it doesn't work and you'll find yourself trying to fix things from a shell with no GUI. If you want to experiment with 1.12.99.905 and actually have a usable desktop, Nvidia released a new beta yesterday ver. 304.43. Rename and modify the 304.37.ebuild as I mentioned above, in your overlay. Remember, because of the ABI change all of the drivers built against Xorg need to be rebuilt as well. I've been playing around with it for about 6 hours now with no issues. Good luck.
(In reply to comment #4) > (In reply to comment #0) > > Nvidia has said themselves that this driver is compatible with the Xorg 13 > > ABI, there is no reason to have the arbitrarily package block on xorg-server > > in the current ebuild. > > > > Reproducible: Always > > > > Steps to Reproduce: > > 1. emerge nvidia-drivers > > Actual Results: > > xorg-1.12.99.904 is blocked due to nvidia drivers. > > > > Expected Results: > > xorg should update to 1.12.99.904. > > Adam, if you don't believe there are issues with 304.37 and the xorg pre-13 > beta releases all you have to do is comment the the line > <x11-base/xorg-server-1.13.99 in the ebuild in your personal overlay. > > However, you have been warned that it doesn't work and you'll find yourself > trying to fix things from a shell with no GUI. > > If you want to experiment with 1.12.99.905 and actually have a usable > desktop, Nvidia released a new beta yesterday ver. 304.43. Rename and modify > the 304.37.ebuild as I mentioned above, in your overlay. Remember, because > of the ABI change all of the drivers built against Xorg need to be rebuilt > as well. > > I've been playing around with it for about 6 hours now with no issues. > > Good luck. That's because 304.43 is the version that actually fixed the ABI support for 1.13. That's the version I will adjust the blocker for.
