[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-02 Thread »Q«
In 20090101213152.77d30...@krikkit, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 14:14:16 -0600, »Q« wrote: I guess I'm in the camp that thinks the administrator should know what modules are needed for the hardware, and portage should keep working as it does now. Then

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 16:39:53 -0600, »Q« wrote: I guess I'm in the camp that thinks the administrator should know what modules are needed for the hardware, and portage should keep working as it does now. Then why the test and warning? I haven't advocated a test and warning.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-02 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 1. Januar 2009 23:39:53 schrieb »Q«: Then why the test and warning? I haven't advocated a test and warning.  But why not? There _is_ a test and warning. See very first mail in this thread. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-02 Thread »Q«
On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 12:35:15 +0100 Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de wrote: Am Donnerstag, 1. Januar 2009 23:39:53 schrieb »Q«: Then why the test and warning? I haven't advocated a test and warning.  But why not? There _is_ a test and warning. See very first mail in this

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-02 Thread »Q«
On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 11:26:20 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 16:39:53 -0600, »Q« wrote: I guess I'm in the camp that thinks the administrator should know what modules are needed for the hardware, and portage should keep working as it does now.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 09:09:23 -0600, »Q« wrote: That's the point of this thread, the ebuild does perform a test before installation, but goes ahead straight after the warning. AFAIAC, the post-install log is exactly where the message belongs -- that's where I'd look if I'd broken my

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-02 Thread »Q«
In 20090102224554.57ea4...@krikkit, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 09:09:23 -0600, »Q« wrote: That's the point of this thread, the ebuild does perform a test before installation, but goes ahead straight after the warning. AFAIAC, the post-install log

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-01-02, ?Q? boxc...@gmx.net wrote: In 20090102224554.57ea4...@krikkit, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 09:09:23 -0600, ?Q? wrote: That's the point of this thread, the ebuild does perform a test before installation, but goes ahead straight after the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-02 Thread Dale
Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-01-02, ?Q? boxc...@gmx.net wrote: In 20090102224554.57ea4...@krikkit, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 09:09:23 -0600, ?Q? wrote: That's the point of this thread, the ebuild does perform a test before installation,

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-01 Thread »Q«
In 200901010423.25783.volker.armin.hemm...@tu-clausthal.de, Volker Armin Hemmann volker.armin.hemm...@tu-clausthal.de wrote: That is why you have to go to nvnews first and then upgrade. Where is nvnews? I've been going to http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html, selecting the driver I'm

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-01 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-01-01, Matt Causey matt.cau...@gmail.com wrote: I am total Gentoo newb :D but it seems kind of fundamental to the concept of this distribution that its users are going to make themselves aware of the details of system updates. Short of reading ridiculous amounts of doco...folks

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Michael P. Soulier wrote: [...] I see many posts like this but few suggestions as to how the problem could have been avoided ahead of time. You can open a bug about it and suggest something.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-01 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 01/01/09 Nikos Chantziaras said: You can open a bug about it and suggest something. I did yesterday when it happened. Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 01 Januar 2009, »Q« wrote: In 200901010423.25783.volker.armin.hemm...@tu-clausthal.de, Volker Armin Hemmann volker.armin.hemm...@tu-clausthal.de wrote: That is why you have to go to nvnews first and then upgrade. Where is nvnews?

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-01 Thread »Q«
On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 13:28:55 -0500 Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca wrote: Your philosophy seems to put an undue amount of work on the administrator. I guess I'm in the camp that thinks the administrator should know what modules are needed for the hardware, and portage should keep

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 14:14:16 -0600, »Q« wrote: I guess I'm in the camp that thinks the administrator should know what modules are needed for the hardware, and portage should keep working as it does now. Then why the test and warning? -- Neil Bothwick God is real, unless specifically