Problems with i810 2.x.x and widescreen on an acer x221w

[Jason]

Daniel Kasak wrote:
[snip]
> Portage may ( continually ) try to re-install the old xf86-video-i810.
> Don't let it. I haven't ( yet ) found out how to prevent it from doing
> this.

echo "x11-drivers/xf86-video-i810"  \
>>/etc/portage/profile/package.provided

Although this may have changed (the path, etc). I haven't used it in a
while since gentoo-sources have been pretty stable.

hth,

Jason