Re: [gentoo-amd64] Kernel-3.3.0 and Nvidia-drivers

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Frank Peters <frank.peters@comcast.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 09:03:59 -0700
> Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>    I hadn't played with this since you first posted but I've been
>> waiting for a new nvidia-driver to solve the problem and not seen it.
>> As my laptop uses vanilla-sources I was stuck but also not really
>> wanting to do the patch you did.
>>
>
> It's not much of a patch.  It involves only copying a few files
> from one directory to another.  Apparently, these files are
> auto-generated by the new kernel and placed in the wrong location
> (wrong for Nvidia).
>
>>
>> Anyway, for kicks this morning I tried gentoo-sources-3.3.0 and
>> found that nvidia-drivers builds & runs fine with that kernel.
>>
>
> Out of habit, I still use the kernel sources from kernel.org.
> I have an automated build/install for this from a long time
> back.  But maybe I'll look into the gentoo-sources one day.
> Thanks for the tip.
>

Ah, so you operate independently as well as outside of the world of
portage do you?!? Shame! ;-)

Anyway, I don't much know what the Gentoo devs do to patch
gentoo-sources. I've gone back and forth between the two at different
times. One reason to stick with gentoo-sources is that vanilla-sources
(and presumably source directly from kernel.org) isn't supported by
Gentoo Security. Not sure how important that is to an individual
though.

> However, checking the Changelog for gentoo-sources I do not
> see any indication of a possible patch to fix 3.3.0.  Maybe
> I'm just not looking in the right place.
>

Dunno. I can only report that my laptop seems happy with
gentoo-source-3.3.0 + nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1. Frame rate is OK. No
weird messages so far in dmesg. Nothing much else to report.

Have fun,
Mark

> Frank Peters
>
>