Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Barry Schwartz <chemoelectric@×××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Kernel-3.3.0 and Nvidia-drivers
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 03:02:45
Message-Id: 20120320003414.GA3000@crud
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Kernel-3.3.0 and Nvidia-drivers by Mark Knecht
1 Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> skribis:
2 > I do have a problem with someone saying 'it's time for everyone to
3 > give up nvidia-drivers' without demonstrating they know the full
4 > impact of what they are suggesting. Had Cheng Renquan suggest 'Maybe
5 > people who don't need anything other than basic X capabilities should
6 > consider running nouveau' I wouldn't have even chimed in.
7
8 Sage Notebook (sage-on-gentoo overlay) can use CUDA as well. I think
9 you don't have to worry that nvidia-drivers would go away; in the
10 worst case it would end up in a good overlay. That's unlikely IMO, and
11 would mostly likely be if there were an established alternative
12 implementation of CUDA.