From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G0R7I-0002fZ-Lx for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 22:54:09 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6BMqf67011366; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 22:52:41 GMT Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice02.Princeton.EDU [128.112.130.38]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6BMlZZk015944 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 22:47:36 GMT Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id k6BMlZf9002292 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 18:47:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from sep.dynalias.net (fez.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.190]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id k6BMlYNk029222 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 18:47:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: by sep.dynalias.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C4F7232850A; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 18:48:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 18:48:27 -0400 From: Willie Wong To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel p.masked by hardened profile Message-ID: <20060711224827.GA32071@princeton.edu> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Archives-Salt: 69d5b2df-b6fc-454a-8959-76cbf14b1567 X-Archives-Hash: 81f33b848492a9bb4b49b063cc144da6 A emerge update after a recent sync turns up the following message: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "nvidia-kernel" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.7676-r1 (masked by: package.mask) # These two package do more harm than good w/ hardened. # users must now the opensource xorg nv driver with nvidia cards. # By placing Driver "nv" in xorg.conf # 2006-06-29 solar Ditto with the new nvidia-drivers package. A few questions: 1. nv still doesn't do 3D acceleration, right? 2. Is there more information about what "more harm than good" means? I tried googling but the only thing I found was a commit log on solar's website with a one-liner about p.masking nvidia-kernel. I want to know what kind of problems that nvidia drivers incur so I can decided whether to give up 3D acceleration, the hardened profile, or ignore solar's advice and unmask the packages. 3. Is this (the fact that I am running a hardened profile) the reason that if I 'emerge --pretend --update xorg-x11 --verbose', among the list of VIDEO_CARDS options displayed, I do not see nvidia? Thanks, W -- A boy mathematician and a girl mathematician face each other from opposite sides of a room, and at the same time a boy engineer and a girl engineer face each other from opposite sides of the room. At the end of each minute, each boy-girl pair is allowed to halve their distance from each other. The boy and girl mathematicians never meet, but after a few minutes the engineers get close enough "for all practical purposes." Sortir en Pantoufles: up 5:21 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list