* Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Heads Up Kernel-3.11 Nvidia-drivers
@ 2013-09-03 19:41 99% ` Mark Knecht
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From: Mark Knecht @ 2013-09-03 19:41 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Gentoo AMD64
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> Note that 3.10 is the new "long term support" kernel by upstream, so if you
> decide not to upgrade to the latest and greatest, 3.10 will be receiving
> updates for a long time to come.
>
> http://kroah.com/log/blog/2013/08/04/longterm-kernel-3-dot-10
Great info Nikos. Thanks. I'm a bit thrown by a new Gentoo-Linux
option in the kernel but it looks like a good move long term for the
distro. Just have to test that I didn't break anything basic.
My machine here is getting into an Nvidia pickle that so far I've been
unable to get out of. Problem is I'm not sure where to go but I
haven't really asked anyone as I wasn't even quite sure how to
approach the problem. I'm not necessarily looking for a technical
solution today. Really I'm just interested in how others would
approach the problem.
Currently I'm running gentoo-sources-3.8.13 with
nvidia-drivers-313.30. For whatever reason my long running xorg.conf
file will no longer run with any nvidia driver newer than 313.30. X
just doesn't run. Based on your post I just built 3.10.7 and it
appears that 313.30 isn't supported with this newer kernel so pretty
soon I'm gonna have problems...
Possible directions to go:
1) Fix xorg.conf. Best solution but so far I haven't been able to do
it even with help from the Gentoo forums. Where to go? Don't know.
Nvidia forums maybe? Here? Dunno.
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.) :-)
3) Buy one or two new VGA cards. I currently run 3 screens, 2 on a
GTX465 and 1 on a 8400 GS. My trading partner uses 2 8400's without
issues (so far) so I could dump the GTX465, buy 1 8400 and I'd be OK
but would lose a lot of compute power. None the less it would likely
work.
4) Something else...
All considered responses welcomed.
Cheers,
Mark
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