From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0A3DF1382C5 for ; Thu, 12 Apr 2018 19:02:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 21394E0948; Thu, 12 Apr 2018 19:02:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from blaine.gmane.org (unknown [195.159.176.226]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A14D8E0908 for ; Thu, 12 Apr 2018 19:02:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f6hRo-0004jH-5y for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2018 20:59:52 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-391+ does not support latest GPU? Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 22:01:58 +0300 Message-ID: References: <010f3620-5bcd-d7ff-6b64-000d33ebcd2b@ya.ru> 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; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 In-Reply-To: <010f3620-5bcd-d7ff-6b64-000d33ebcd2b@ya.ru> Content-Language: en-US X-Archives-Salt: 67dea1b2-110d-48a4-8a6d-98ab2553dfef X-Archives-Hash: 55e50c99f37477d0f9d176979bd6623a On 12/04/18 16:31, Alexey Eschenko wrote: > Is this some kind of maintainer's mistake or does NVIDIA really messed > up with drivers again? Before updating the nvidia driver, you should always check here: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx and see if the version you're updating to is a beta driver or not. As a long time nvidia-drivers user, I really recommend to: 1. Use an LTS kernel series (latest LTS series is 4.14.x.) 2. Do not install nvidia beta drivers. 3. Do not use X.Org pre-releases. Currently, that means these in package.mask: >=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.15 >=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-391 >=x11-base/xorg-server-1.19.99 Unless you're using Chrome, where 390 has a bug that makes it unusable slow, so you need: >=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-385 You need to check on the available versions these packages manually from time to time to see if it's safe to update them. Also, nvidia driver version can be confusing. 390 is the latest stable series, while 384 is the "LTS-like" stable series. To be frank, I find it impossible to tell what's happening with driver releases from nvidia if I don't read phoronix.com news. In any event, the TL;DR is that sticking to non-beta drivers and non-beta xorg and the latest LTS kernel will result in avoiding the majority of breakages.