From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B61E1381F3 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 02:07:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BE02CE0C4D; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 02:07:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 561D8E0C21 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 02:07:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F70533EB96 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 02:07:22 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.027 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.027 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.178, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-2.204, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=unavailable Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id GI2tiTYHJa6q for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 02:07:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EB8DD33EB46 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 02:07:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VE8gX-0003ra-Hn for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 04:07:09 +0200 Received: from wsip-174-76-82-7.no.no.cox.net ([174.76.82.7]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 04:07:09 +0200 Received: from boxcars by wsip-174-76-82-7.no.no.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 04:07:09 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: =?UTF-8?B?wrtRwqs=?= Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: The NVIDIA/Kernel fiasco -- is it safe to sync yet? Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 21:06:55 -0500 Organization: none Message-ID: <20130826210655.1c5506dd@fuchsia.remarqs.net> References: <20130823180959.GA13353@artifex> <1746861.kq9W4Fkxay@apollo> <20130823231239.4d4df2db@fuchsia.remarqs.net> <52186597.6030407@gmail.com> <20130824194527.122b5436@fuchsia.remarqs.net> <521A2E41.2020001@gmail.com> <20130825205246.3ece7b78@fuchsia.remarqs.net> <521AEF78.5020909@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: wsip-174-76-82-7.no.no.cox.net X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 3.9.0 (GTK+ 2.24.17; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-Archives-Salt: cc457c35-e447-4242-b9f2-5f8d0b39d901 X-Archives-Hash: be9f4e5da60b78db734fbccd2f0bb966 On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 08:02:32 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 26/08/2013 03:52, =C2=BBQ=C2=AB 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. > > I was unclear to the point of being misleading. I'm sorry. > >=20 > > The wiki idea is only for a page which tells which > > kernel/nvidia-drivers combinations the Gentoo nvidia-drivers > > maintainers support. And by "support", I mean they'll look into > > bugs and fix build problems if they're able to. This is exactly > > the info I'm grepping out of ewarn messages in their ebuilds now. >=20 >=20 > 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. nVidia's READMEs give a minimum kernel version, but no max.