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On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Note that 3.10 is the new "long term support" kernel by upstream, so if you |
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> decide not to upgrade to the latest and greatest, 3.10 will be receiving |
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> updates for a long time to come. |
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> http://kroah.com/log/blog/2013/08/04/longterm-kernel-3-dot-10 |
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Great info Nikos. Thanks. I'm a bit thrown by a new Gentoo-Linux |
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option in the kernel but it looks like a good move long term for the |
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distro. Just have to test that I didn't break anything basic. |
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My machine here is getting into an Nvidia pickle that so far I've been |
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unable to get out of. Problem is I'm not sure where to go but I |
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haven't really asked anyone as I wasn't even quite sure how to |
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approach the problem. I'm not necessarily looking for a technical |
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solution today. Really I'm just interested in how others would |
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approach the problem. |
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Currently I'm running gentoo-sources-3.8.13 with |
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nvidia-drivers-313.30. For whatever reason my long running xorg.conf |
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file will no longer run with any nvidia driver newer than 313.30. X |
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just doesn't run. Based on your post I just built 3.10.7 and it |
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appears that 313.30 isn't supported with this newer kernel so pretty |
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soon I'm gonna have problems... |
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Possible directions to go: |
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1) Fix xorg.conf. Best solution but so far I haven't been able to do |
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it even with help from the Gentoo forums. Where to go? Don't know. |
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Nvidia forums maybe? Here? Dunno. |
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2) Drop nvidia-drivers and try nouveau. May be a reasonable video |
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direction - my screen-based video/graphics needs are not high - |
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however I have long terms needs of accessing the GPU as a compute |
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engine in R so I _think_ I have to stick with nvidia-drivers to do |
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that. Maybe not but I don't know at this time and I could deal with |
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that later. (I know Duncan's vote, if he's reading, goes here.) :-) |
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3) Buy one or two new VGA cards. I currently run 3 screens, 2 on a |
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GTX465 and 1 on a 8400 GS. My trading partner uses 2 8400's without |
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issues (so far) so I could dump the GTX465, buy 1 8400 and I'd be OK |
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but would lose a lot of compute power. None the less it would likely |
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work. |
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4) Something else... |
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All considered responses welcomed. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |