From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QgQsq-0002IB-9R for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:31:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F40E021C15F for ; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:31:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E74AE21C080 for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:49:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60ECC2AC1BD for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:49:27 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -4.935 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.935 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=1.664, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-4] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Z2A+j8-hclxE for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:49:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97D682AC1A3 for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:49:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QgQDx-0001KF-Oe for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 01:49:13 +0200 Received: from adsl-69-234-194-44.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.194.44]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 01:49:13 +0200 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-194-44.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 01:49:13 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics. Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:48:59 -0700 Message-ID: References: <4E11EEF3.70804@gmail.com> <4E168B0E.2070100@gmail.com> <201107080702.58452.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <4E16B251.6080204@gmail.com> <4E16B548.5050105@gmail.com> <4E17B3C3.4010009@gmail.com> <4E187F60.9080400@gmail.com> <4E18ABC3.1090909@orlitzky.com> <4E18C082.4070209@gmail.com> <4E18C977.9070001@orlitzky.com> <4E18D5A7.8040309@gmail.com> <4E1971AA.20209@coolmail.se> <4E1A00BA.5090306@gmail.com> <20110710230550.3e7c9060@digimed.co.uk> <4E1A4374.2090707@gmail.com> <20110711101558.497e1180@digimed.co.uk> <4E1B6B87.7050803@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=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-194-44.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110705 Thunderbird/5.0 In-Reply-To: <4E1B6B87.7050803@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: c451bf67191ece320f5eaca2da02f306 On 07/11/2011 02:30 PM, Dale wrote: >> =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.99.99 or something to that effect. >> I just can't recall how to do it at the moment but each time I do a >> emerge -uvDNa world, it wants to upgrade the nvidia drivers to the >> 275 series or something. I've had the same problem many times -- and so far it's always been my bad typing skills :) I have exactly the same needs on my old machine, and here's what I have: #grep nvidia /etc/portage/package.mask >=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-177.80 <=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.27 (can't remember why I did this) In my experience the disadvantage of using the older drivers is that nVidia is slow to fix build breakage introduced by Linus et al. I test Linus's daily kernel updates (because I like pain, that's why) and I've had to fudge all kinds of stuff to get the 173.x.x drivers to build against the new kernel headers. You'd think I could find something better to do with my time -- but no...