On Wednesday 03 May 2006 11:08, S. Schwartz wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > which patches? > > What would you missing? > > I don't really know, not even if those would be important to me. But I > kind of trust into the work of the Gentoo-guys and believe the > gentoo-sources are tested more intensive than vanilla sources (that's > just hearsay). > > > And since the problem does not appear with vanilla kernels, it is worth a > > try. > > Not really. Firstly, in portage only vanilla-sources-2.6.15.1 is > declared as stable (and I won't use an unstable one). Since I never had > problems with gentoo-sources-2.6.15-rsomething the whole procedure might > work, but that would be kinda lame news to me. > Secondly, I don't think avoiding the problem fixes it. I might have > similar problems in the future if patching isn't done properly with > certain packages that tend to come with problems (e.g. nvidia stuff). >
if the problem is in the gentoo-sources itself, you can try as many nvidia drivers as you want. Besides: ls /usr/portage/sys-kernel/vanilla-sources/ ChangeLog vanilla-sources-2.6.14.4.ebuild files vanilla-sources-2.6.14.5.ebuild Manifest vanilla-sources-2.6.14.6.ebuild metadata.xml vanilla-sources-2.6.15.1.ebuild vanilla-sources-2.0.40-r1.ebuild vanilla-sources-2.6.15.3.ebuild vanilla-sources-2.2.26-r1.ebuild vanilla-sources-2.6.15.4.ebuild vanilla-sources-2.4.21.ebuild vanilla-sources-2.6.15.5.ebuild vanilla-sources-2.4.28.ebuild vanilla-sources-2.6.15.6.ebuild vanilla-sources-2.4.30.ebuild vanilla-sources-2.6.15.ebuild vanilla-sources-2.4.31.ebuild vanilla-sources-2.6.16.11.ebuild vanilla-sources-2.4.32.ebuild vanilla-sources-2.6.16.1.ebuild vanilla-sources-2.6.10.ebuild vanilla-sources-2.6.16.5.ebuild vanilla-sources-2.6.11.11.ebuild vanilla-sources-2.6.16.9.ebuild vanilla-sources-2.6.11.12.ebuild vanilla-sources-2.6.16.ebuild vanilla-sources-2.6.11.8.ebuild vanilla-sources-2.6.17_rc1.ebuild vanilla-sources-2.6.12.5.ebuild vanilla-sources-2.6.17_rc2.ebuild vanilla-sources-2.6.13.4.ebuild vanilla-sources-2.6.17_rc3.ebuild vanilla-sources-2.6.14.2.ebuild vanilla-sources-2.6.5.ebuild vanilla-sources-2.6.14.3.ebuild vanilla-sources-2.6.7.ebuild there is A LOT after .15 - many of them with security fixes. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
