From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <gentoo-amd64+bounces-13424-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org> Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71E5D1381F3 for <garchives@archives.gentoo.org>; Tue, 3 Sep 2013 19:59:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A0B18E13B6; Tue, 3 Sep 2013 19:51:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from qmta04.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta04.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.40]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF1D7E13B3 for <gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org>; Tue, 3 Sep 2013 19:51:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.28]) by qmta04.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id LiMo1m0030cQ2SLA4jrYjv; Tue, 03 Sep 2013 19:51:32 +0000 Received: from crud.chemoelectric.org ([66.41.30.59]) by omta10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id LjrW1m00j1GXozm8WjrXk4; Tue, 03 Sep 2013 19:51:31 +0000 Received: by crud.chemoelectric.org (Postfix, from userid 1501) id 503D62186CD0E; Tue, 3 Sep 2013 14:51:30 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 14:51:30 -0500 From: Barry Schwartz <chemoelectric@chemoelectric.org> To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Heads Up Kernel-3.11 Nvidia-drivers Message-ID: <20130903195130.GA2214@crud> References: <20130903132437.487e8702daf4352783d4a5d4@comcast.net> <l057lt$3gr$1@ger.gmane.org> <CAK2H+eeFgggbefwOke-dwK2ADgmaySKFxRwxcm7kYpS+mkb-Gw@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-amd64+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-amd64+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-amd64+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-amd64.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <CAK2H+eeFgggbefwOke-dwK2ADgmaySKFxRwxcm7kYpS+mkb-Gw@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=comcast.net; s=q20121106; t=1378237892; bh=fkMnmixYrUxkW9zXVhXkZIOOJBgf2AbuKJl2kW5mOaM=; h=Received:Received:Received:Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=ftAE93/44Feearwpo6m23Rd504bP6rzNBuKZyAz+GdGQ7XTex1mW2zbhwFfVknP1W X9P0Vr+wH7t7eUoueSKlwKTJodXXRZxuC2/4uERXs3R/jQVcE2C8mX3VrmGsiJl94a fNuN/h60LhrjnOEVreC0bl9443kpD5rb1+d5wHyaYahifYtdeW7oGTWLQpHVuGC7Vy DUcUjQnOYpLSXxKOHNHwFtok8mPFPluOV6mzviE/elL73KU9tIWbillSvtnPzPgLil sicKjmsLsNk6jAf194QAwBUXnOO5vinkcpCCRTleRgxDshTLoXQ6NEvPGqsMW88YuE H1XOhTkxkNgkQ== X-Archives-Salt: ceff1deb-01b2-4033-bcc2-8512ee202f10 X-Archives-Hash: c18a881de2b9e135e97ae2b97c7947fc Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> skribis: > 2) Drop nvidia-drivers and try nouveau. May be a reasonable video > direction - my screen-based video/graphics needs are not high - > however I have long terms needs of accessing the GPU as a compute > engine in R so I _think_ I have to stick with nvidia-drivers to do > that. Maybe not but I don't know at this time and I could deal with > that later. (I know Duncan's vote, if he's reading, goes here.) :-) I’ve had real trouble with nouveau graphics, not considering cuda computing issues, and so have resigned myself to nvidia’s fetters for the while. I’d switch graphics cards to be freer but, like fictional Jerry Seinfeld’s nana, I’m ‘on a very fixed income’. :)