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On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 02:37:40PM -0600, Matt Thode wrote: |
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> > May I ask if nvidia is still hardend unfriendly? I need CUDA available. |
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> nvidia drivers still don't play well yet. |
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> There are ways to get it working (some people have) but I don't know what exactly they did (I know they paxmarked everything nvidia touches (I think -m). |
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Actually it sounds much worse than it is. Usually it's enough to paxctl -m |
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only few binaries: Xorg, mplayer and vmware-vmx. |
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I'm using CUDA only for "flacuda" encoder, which is .NET's .exe executed by |
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dev-lang/mono (which is already paxmarked by default). |
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On my hardened/nvidia workstation there are several other binaries needs -m, |
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but this probably have nothing with nvidia/CUDA: air-sdk, amarok, firefox. |
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P.S. I'm pretty sure it's much better to have full-featured (including |
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accelerated 3D and CUDA) hardened workstation with partially relaxed |
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protection on some binaries, than full-featured non-hardened workstation |
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or hardened workstation without these (important for workstation) features. |
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And I don't understood why you didn't add few paxmarking commands into |
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several ebuilds and just say nvidia on hardened is supported out of box... |
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instead of pretending there are some unknown critical issues with nvidia |
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on hardened. I don't know, maybe there are some applications which are |
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really have some issues, but I'm running more or less usual hardened |
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workstation with nvidia for years without any issues except needs in few |
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paxmarking mentioned above. |
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WBR, Alex. |
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