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Hi, |
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thank you for including the new nvidia-drivers quickly! |
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Everything is working fine again! |
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Best regards, |
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Meino |
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Meino.Cramer@×××.de <Meino.Cramer@×××.de> [16-09-09 05:28]: |
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> Hi, |
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> Linux kernel < 4.7.0 cannot be compiled with nvidia-drivers newer than 367.35-r1. |
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> Linux kernel >= 4.70 cannot be compiled with nvidia-drivers older than 370.23. |
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> According to this |
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> http://www.heise.de/security/meldung/Sicherheitsforscher-kapern-HTTP-Verbindungen-von-Linux-3292257.html |
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> Linux kernels < 4.7.0 are affected by a security bug. |
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> Unfortunately nvidia-drivers 370.23 has a bug too: Blender (and may be |
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> other similiar programs) crash when accessing certain funtionality |
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> of that driver. |
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> I reported that bug here: |
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> https://developer.blender.org/T49113 |
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> Due to that a bug was reported to nvidia and they accepted and fixed |
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> that bug with nvidia dirvers 370.23, which became already available. |
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> Without that driver all Blender users have to stick with a Linux |
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> kernel with a security problem or have to quit using Blender... |
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> Would it be possible to integrate the newest nvidia-driver 370.28 into |
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> Gentoo so that users of Blender and similiar programs could happily |
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> switch to Linux kernel >=4.7.0 (4.7.3) ? |
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> Thank you very much for your help and understanding for a Blender |
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> freak ! :)) |
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> Best regards, |
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> Meino |
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