Re: [gentoo-user] AMD Opteron microcode updates for spectre

2018-04-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 9:20 PM, taii...@gmx.com wrote: > When is gentoo going to receive these? > Has AMD actually released anything publicly? I find AMD's microcode updates to be horribly documented in general, unless there is some website somewhere published by AMD that

[gentoo-user] AMD Opteron microcode updates for spectre

2018-04-12 Thread taii...@gmx.com
When is gentoo going to receive these? 0xDF372A17.asc Description: application/pgp-keys

[gentoo-user] Re: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-391+ does not support latest GPU?

2018-04-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 13/04/18 01:37, tu...@posteo.de wrote: On 04/13 01:29, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Do you have something specific in mind? I'm not aware of software that requires a non-LTS kernel right now, or a beta X.Org driver, or a beta nvidia-driver. I think of security incidents like meltdown/spectre

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-391+ does not support latest GPU?

2018-04-12 Thread Adam Carter
> I think of security incidents like meltdown/spectre for example... > LTS kernels are maintained, so they get all the required patches.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-391+ does not support latest GPU?

2018-04-12 Thread tuxic
On 04/13 01:29, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 13/04/18 01:18, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > On 04/12 10:01, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > > On 12/04/18 16:31, Alexey Eschenko wrote: > > > > Is this some kind of maintainer's mistake or does NVIDIA really messed > > > > up with drivers again? > > > > >

[gentoo-user] Re: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-391+ does not support latest GPU?

2018-04-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 13/04/18 01:18, tu...@posteo.de wrote: On 04/12 10:01, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/04/18 16:31, Alexey Eschenko wrote: Is this some kind of maintainer's mistake or does NVIDIA really messed up with drivers again? Before updating the nvidia driver, you should always check here:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-391+ does not support latest GPU?

2018-04-12 Thread tuxic
On 04/12 10:01, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 12/04/18 16:31, Alexey Eschenko wrote: > > Is this some kind of maintainer's mistake or does NVIDIA really messed > > up with drivers again? > > Before updating the nvidia driver, you should always check here: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel module signature now shown on modinfo

2018-04-12 Thread Dave Trombley
This has been broken for almost two years; the signature format switched to PKCS#7 and modinfo doesn't support it. It's not as simple as just patching kmod because evidently the kernel change regressed or disrespected the relevent structure in the modules in a way that makes it impossible for

[gentoo-user] Re: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-391+ does not support latest GPU?

2018-04-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/04/18 16:31, Alexey Eschenko wrote: Is this some kind of maintainer's mistake or does NVIDIA really messed up with drivers again? Before updating the nvidia driver, you should always check here: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx and see if the version you're updating to is a

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-391+ does not support latest GPU?

2018-04-12 Thread tuxic
On 04/12 01:21, Dale wrote: > tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > On 04/12 10:54, Dale wrote: > >> Alexey Eschenko wrote: > >>> Hi. > >>> > >>> I've just read regular @world build log and found this: > >>> >  * Messages for package x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-396.18-r1: > >  * * WARNING

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-391+ does not support latest GPU?

2018-04-12 Thread Dale
tu...@posteo.de wrote: > On 04/12 10:54, Dale wrote: >> Alexey Eschenko wrote: >>> Hi. >>> >>> I've just read regular @world build log and found this: >>>  * Messages for package x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-396.18-r1:  * * WARNING *  *  * You are currently

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-391+ does not support latest GPU?

2018-04-12 Thread tuxic
On 04/12 10:54, Dale wrote: > Alexey Eschenko wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I've just read regular @world build log and found this: > > > >>  * Messages for package x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-396.18-r1: > >> > >>  * * WARNING * > >>  * > >>  * You are currently installing a version of

[gentoo-user] Re: Wrong instructions when installing Oracle JRE

2018-04-12 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2018-04-11 01:08, R0b0t1 wrote: > Can we stop using Oracle's JVM? An ever recurring question, and of course one that should be asked. What is the alternative? icedtea is the _same_ VM, just built differently. And building it from source requires cups, which I don't want on my system.

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-391+ does not support latest GPU?

2018-04-12 Thread Dale
Alexey Eschenko wrote: > Hi. > > I've just read regular @world build log and found this: > >>  * Messages for package x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-396.18-r1: >> >>  * * WARNING * >>  * >>  * You are currently installing a version of nvidia-drivers that is >>  * known not to work with a video

[gentoo-user] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-391+ does not support latest GPU?

2018-04-12 Thread Alexey Eschenko
Hi. I've just read regular @world build log and found this:  * Messages for package x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-396.18-r1:  * * WARNING *  *  * You are currently installing a version of nvidia-drivers that is  * known not to work with a video card you have installed on your  * system.

[gentoo-user] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-391+ does not support latest GPU?

2018-04-12 Thread Alexey Eschenko
Hi. I've just read regular @world build log and found this:  * Messages for package x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-396.18-r1:  * * WARNING *  *  * You are currently installing a version of nvidia-drivers that is  * known not to work with a video card you have installed on your  * system.