Bug 534596 – app-eselect/eselect-opengl-1.3.1-r1 disables x11 on a system with ati-drivers[legacy]

• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Helmut Jarausch 2015-01-04 11:20:25 UTC]

I have a system with an (old) Radeon HD 3300 graphics chip onboard.
Therefore I have been using ati-drivers-13.1_pre897 and
xorg-server-1.12.4-r2

Installing eselect-opengl-1.3.1-r1 unmerges
x11-drivers/ati-drivers-13.1_pre897 and
x11-base/xorg-server-1.12.4-r2

disabling X11 alltogether on my machine.

That's a bad surprise.

Does that mean that I cannot use current and newer versions of eselect-opengl ?

[Comment 1 Ben Kohler 2015-01-04 16:44:52 UTC]

xorg-server should have been in your world file, and that would have prevented an unmerge.  On hardware that old, you really should just use the open radeon driver.  I don't think there's a bug here.

[Comment 2 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2015-01-04 20:47:42 UTC]

Helmut: Any reason why you're using fglrx?

Michał: maybe backports?

[Comment 3 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2015-01-04 20:49:13 UTC]

Oh wait,

Helmut: you should not mix stable and ~arch packages. eselect-opengl 1.3.1-r1 is not meant to be used on stable systems.

Please downgrade.

Thanks

[Comment 4 Michał Górny 2015-01-04 22:52:17 UTC]

(In reply to Rémi Cardona from comment #2)
> Helmut: Any reason why you're using fglrx?
> 
> Michał: maybe backports?

I think I asked on one of the bugs whether to backport stuff and to which versions :).

[Comment 5 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn 2015-10-29 17:53:06 UTC]

legacy drivers have been removed from the tree.