Summary: | x11-drivers/ati-drivers-15.12-r1 does not support >=x11-base/xorg-server-1.18.0 | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | loadaverage <vadim.sloan> |
Component: | [OLD] Library | Assignee: | Gentoo X packagers <x11> |
Status: | RESOLVED CANTFIX | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | mike, mlspamcb, proxy-maint |
Priority: | Normal | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | AMD64 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
loadaverage
2016-01-30 08:48:51 UTC
According to the ebuild, ati-drivers requires <=x11-base/xorg-server-1.17.49[-minimal]. I doubt much can be done about that until upstream releases a new version. I managed to deal with a similar problem by blocking packages in /etc/portage/packages.block. My file reads:
>=x11-base/xorg-server-1.18
>=x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.9.3
>=x11-base/xorg-drivers-1.18
The most recent plasma also needed the following added to /etc/portage/package.use:
kde-plasma/plasma-desktop -evdev
This is probably an upstream problem as I am unsure they support 1.18 currently i think fglrx is dead or at least it's walking dead by now :) http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-Blob-Server-1.18 http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-16.04-Dropping-fglrx Impossible to fix binary drivers. |