Thus spake Andreas Karlsson on Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 05:08:35PM CDT > On Monday 17 July 2006 19:16, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > I used the unstable nvidia-drivers package with kernel 2.6.16-gentoo-r9, > > and after re-emerging an additional package (at-spi) which had gone out of > > sync with one of its libs, I got gnome working again, with Nvidia GLX > > support, too. > > So, falling back on stable is solving your issues with the broken > nvidia-module, if I'm reading you correctly?
I may have misspoken here. I was using nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629 and having missing symbol problems with the module in the running kernel (2.6.16-gentoo-r9, see <http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112356#c2>). It doesn't look as if this driver version is in the current stable nvidia-drivers version. Both the stable and unstable are using 1.0.8762. My understanding is that nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx are being phased out in favor of the unitary package nvidia-drivers, which contains both. >Unstable can be ... well, too unstable at times . I'm running unstable amd64 >and been forced to live with all its quirks. That can be just as anoying as >rewarding helping out solving bugs etc. I don't run ~x86 stuff unless I have to, and sometimes I have to because that's where bug fixes get put. Some people I've corresponded with just set ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 in their shell profile and run with it. I haven't got that kind of time! Yes, it's too ... well, too unstable :-) > > I try to only do desktop upgrades on weekends now. It's embarrassing when > > clients call me and I have to say "Can't help you right now. My computer's > > not working". I'm 'sposed to be the guy whose computer is _always_ working > > :-) > > Oh, indeed. That is understandable. If you use your Gentoo-box for actuall > production don't go with unstable, even if there are some temptation getting > on the bleeding edge. Better to have a working system than none at all, as > you've no doubt seen during the last few days. Been there, done that - a bunch of times :-) You're quite right. -- Lindsay Haisley | "Fighting against human | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | creativity is like | available at 512-259-1190 | trying to eradicate | <http://pubkeys.fmp.com> http://www.fmp.com | dandelions" | | (Pamela Jones) | -- [email protected] mailing list
