Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The NVIDIA/Kernel fiasco -- is it safe to sync yet?

2013-08-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 27/08/2013 04:06, »Q« wrote: On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 08:02:32 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 26/08/2013 03:52, »Q« wrote: I doubt your wiki page idea will work, it will be just accurate enough to look like it might work and just inaccurate enough to be useless. Which

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The NVIDIA/Kernel fiasco -- is it safe to sync yet?

2013-08-27 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 27/08/2013 04:06, »Q« wrote: On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 08:02:32 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 26/08/2013 03:52, »Q« wrote: I doubt your wiki page idea will work, it will be just accurate

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The NVIDIA/Kernel fiasco -- is it safe to sync yet?

2013-08-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 27/08/2013 09:14, Pandu Poluan wrote: That list is the list of kernels that nVidia supports, which is easy to find. Where? AIUI from reading various threads about this, sometimes that info can be found in nVidia's developer web forum, but I've never been able to find it there.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The NVIDIA/Kernel fiasco -- is it safe to sync yet?

2013-08-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 26/08/2013 03:52, »Q« wrote: I doubt your wiki page idea will work, it will be just accurate enough to look like it might work and just inaccurate enough to be useless. Which brings you back to the previous paragraph - try emerge nvidia-drivers and if it fails then don't use that kernel.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The NVIDIA/Kernel fiasco -- is it safe to sync yet?

2013-08-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 25/08/2013 02:45, »Q« wrote: On Sat, 24 Aug 2013 09:49:43 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 24/08/2013 06:26, Chris Stankevitz wrote: On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 9:12 PM, »Q« boxc...@gmx.net wrote: It looks like maybe the best way to tell which ebuilds support which

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The NVIDIA/Kernel fiasco -- is it safe to sync yet?

2013-08-25 Thread Mick
On Sunday 25 Aug 2013 17:18:09 Alan McKinnon wrote: On 25/08/2013 02:45, »Q« wrote: On Sat, 24 Aug 2013 09:49:43 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 24/08/2013 06:26, Chris Stankevitz wrote: On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 9:12 PM, »Q« boxc...@gmx.net wrote: It looks like

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The NVIDIA/Kernel fiasco -- is it safe to sync yet?

2013-08-25 Thread hasufell
On 08/25/2013 06:34 PM, Mick wrote: On Sunday 25 Aug 2013 17:18:09 Alan McKinnon wrote: On 25/08/2013 02:45, »Q« wrote: On Sat, 24 Aug 2013 09:49:43 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 24/08/2013 06:26, Chris Stankevitz wrote: On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 9:12 PM, »Q«

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The NVIDIA/Kernel fiasco -- is it safe to sync yet?

2013-08-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 25/08/2013 18:34, Mick wrote: On Sunday 25 Aug 2013 17:18:09 Alan McKinnon wrote: On 25/08/2013 02:45, »Q« wrote: On Sat, 24 Aug 2013 09:49:43 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 24/08/2013 06:26, Chris Stankevitz wrote: On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 9:12 PM, »Q«

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The NVIDIA/Kernel fiasco -- is it safe to sync yet?

2013-08-25 Thread Dale
hasufell wrote: On 08/25/2013 06:34 PM, Mick wrote: I've been always running ATI Radeon cards, by accident rather than design. I was thinking of moving to NVidia on a new box to be built soon, because of the many accolades that I have read on the Internet, but reports of problems

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The NVIDIA/Kernel fiasco -- is it safe to sync yet?

2013-08-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 24/08/2013 06:26, Chris Stankevitz wrote: On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 9:12 PM, »Q« boxc...@gmx.net wrote: It looks like maybe the best way to tell which ebuilds support which kernels is to read the conditional for the ewarn message in each ebuild. If this sort of problem spreads it might be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The NVIDIA/Kernel fiasco -- is it safe to sync yet?

2013-08-23 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 9:12 PM, »Q« boxc...@gmx.net wrote: It looks like maybe the best way to tell which ebuilds support which kernels is to read the conditional for the ewarn message in each ebuild. If this sort of problem spreads it might be good to build into portage some kind of