[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] gnome 3.2 in testing
Myra Nelson
myra.nelson at hughes.net
Sun Oct 2 17:05:56 EDT 2011
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 18:40, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook <jtwdyp at ttlc.net> wrote:
>
> It would appear that on Sep 30, Matthew Monaco did say that:
>
>> On 09/28/2011 01:41 PM, Ionut Biru wrote:
>> > NVIDIA users be aware that xorg-server 1.11 from testing is incompatible
>> > with
>> > the current nvidia driver, even with IgnoreABI. You can switch to nouveau or
>> > add
>> > xf86-input-evdev xf86-input-synaptics xorg-server-common xorg-server to
>> > Ignorepkg.
>
> I didn't see Ionut Biru's post, and actually not being a gnome user I'm
> surprised I opened one from this thread. But the bit about "NVIDIA users be
> aware" kinda caught my eye.
>
> Since the version of xorg in question is "from testing" I suspect I've
> nothing to worry about and that it wouldn't wind up in the main repo while
> its still "incompatible". But since I know for a fact that my PC's built in
> Nvidia adapter is extremely incompatible with nouveau, I'd like to
> understand what and where this "Ignorepkg" is?
>
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>
Joe:
Ignorepkg is in pacman.conf.
Myra
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