[gentoo-user] nvidia-firmware for GT520

According to [1] my Nvidia GT520 needs FW for VP4.2 video acceleration support. I found there is a Gentoo package which seems to provide the Nvidia FW. According to [2] my card should be part of NVC0 family (Fermi), in particular code name NVD9 (GF119). Nvidia-firmware contains binaries with

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox automatic update???

On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 07:55:18 +0100 n952162 wrote: > I was just informed by firefox on one of my gentoo machines that firefox > has updated, I need to restart. > > I no longer find an option to disable automatic update.  Is there no hope? > > And do I have to go through another 18 hour firefox

[gentoo-user] firefox automatic update???

I was just informed by firefox on one of my gentoo machines that firefox has updated, I need to restart. I no longer find an option to disable automatic update.  Is there no hope? And do I have to go through another 18 hour firefox emerge to get rid of their "update"?  Or is their binary

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and kernel sources... part deux.

On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 08:31:07 -0800, Daniel Frey wrote: > Or is this because nvidia-drivers depends on virtual/linux-sources? > Even so, the presence of the single slotted version in world should be > enough to satisfy the dependency. Exactly, and emerge -u will try to update that and its

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and kernel sources... part deux.

On 11/11/20 7:56 AM, Arve Barsnes wrote: On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 at 16:44, Daniel Frey wrote: Does anyone have any idea where to look next to see why this is being pulled in? You should probably just refer to your previous thread, because all the same info still applies. You need to mask

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and kernel sources... part deux.

On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 16:56:38 +0100, Arve Barsnes wrote: > > Does anyone have any idea where to look next to see why this is being > > pulled in? > > You should probably just refer to your previous thread, because all > the same info still applies. You need to mask gentoo-sources and > unmask

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and kernel sources... part deux.

On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 at 16:44, Daniel Frey wrote: > Does anyone have any idea where to look next to see why this is being > pulled in? You should probably just refer to your previous thread, because all the same info still applies. You need to mask gentoo-sources and unmask the versions you want

[gentoo-user] Portage and kernel sources... part deux.

So now I have another machine that insists on pulling in another set of kernel sources, even though I like to do this manually. apollo ~ # emerge -auDNt world These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! [nomerge ]