[gentoo-amd64] Re: Kernel-3.10 Nvidia Emerge Failure And Other Stuff
Am 01.07.2013 22:35, schrieb Frank Peters: When I encountered this failure I expected that a huge outcry of bug reports would ensue, but so far things have been rather quiet. There are only a few postings of this problem with 3.10-rc1 and not much else. Well, read the messages on the screen when you try to emerge nvidia-drivers. Doesn't it say, that Gentoo only supports the kernels that NVIDIA supports and that you shall not report a bug nvidia-drivers failing? I should perhaps just patiently wait for the eventual rapid fix, because this error is a real show stopper, but I will make an inquiry nonetheless. Has anyone on the list encountered this error with nvidia and kernel-3.10? My interpretation of this message in the nvidia-drivers ebuild is that the maintainers assume that you switch to nouveau. Nouveau works great for office stuff. But when it comes to gaming I'm hitting a few obstacles. For example, 32bit apps (like wine) are stuck with whatever mesa version is supplied by the emul* packages (mesa 9.0.1 or whatever). It's 2013, and Gentoo still doesn't have proper multilib support in the portage tree. Gentoo is certainly to blame here, but I'd even go further and blame autoconf. Regards, Sven
Re: [gentoo-amd64] Kernel-3.10 Nvidia Emerge Failure And Other Stuff
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net wrote: SNIP However, the main problem for me with kernel-3.20 is that the nvidia-drivers will fail to emerge. Here is the error: SNIP Frank, On the NVidia site they show a new beta driver released today, July 1st, 2013. The version number is 325.08. I just did a sync and that revision does not appear to be in portage yet, at least on the server I'm syncing to. I suspect that's the driver you're looking for but that is just a guess. HTH, Mark Hi Frank, It's July 4th, 3 days later, and nvidia-drivers-325.08 is now in portage. I don't know when it became available - today or yesterday - but 1 day for NVidia to get the driver out 3 days for Gentoo devs to get it into portage isn't too bad in my mind. Just curious if you've tried it yet? Cheers, Mark
Re: [gentoo-amd64] Kernel-3.10 Nvidia Emerge Failure And Other Stuff
On Thu, 4 Jul 2013 16:57:59 -0700 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: and nvidia-drivers-325.08 is now in portage. Just curious if you've tried it yet? It doesn't work with kernel-3.10. A patch for 325.08 is available: https://devtalk.nvidia.com/cmd/default/download-comment-attachment/58795/ As long as someone has a patch that's good enough for me. Frank Peters
Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Kernel-3.10 Nvidia Emerge Failure And Other Stuff
My interpretation of this message in the nvidia-drivers ebuild is that the maintainers assume that you switch to nouveau. I think it means that the problem occurs so frequently that they do not want to be bothered with bug reports -- and rightly so. My great disappointment is that xorg or nvidia or whoever was responsible had decided to stop the legacy nv driver that was part of xorg itself. I don't do gaming and I have no need for ultra-high performance graphics. The nv driver was always good enough for me. But development stopped on nv a few years ago and it no longer supports the newer Nvidia cards. Frank Peters
