Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Kernel-3.3.0 and Nvidia-drivers
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:03:58
Message-Id: CAK2H+efpFzTvjWOaBajkw-a3MxK3P9syqCNsySVWvHP6D5dHJQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Kernel-3.3.0 and Nvidia-drivers by Frank Peters
1 On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Frank Peters <frank.peters@×××××××.net> wrote:
2 > On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 09:03:59 -0700
3 > Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
4 >
5 >>
6 >>    I hadn't played with this since you first posted but I've been
7 >> waiting for a new nvidia-driver to solve the problem and not seen it.
8 >> As my laptop uses vanilla-sources I was stuck but also not really
9 >> wanting to do the patch you did.
10 >>
11 >
12 > It's not much of a patch.  It involves only copying a few files
13 > from one directory to another.  Apparently, these files are
14 > auto-generated by the new kernel and placed in the wrong location
15 > (wrong for Nvidia).
16 >
17 >>
18 >> Anyway, for kicks this morning I tried gentoo-sources-3.3.0 and
19 >> found that nvidia-drivers builds & runs fine with that kernel.
20 >>
21 >
22 > Out of habit, I still use the kernel sources from kernel.org.
23 > I have an automated build/install for this from a long time
24 > back.  But maybe I'll look into the gentoo-sources one day.
25 > Thanks for the tip.
26 >
27
28 Ah, so you operate independently as well as outside of the world of
29 portage do you?!? Shame! ;-)
30
31 Anyway, I don't much know what the Gentoo devs do to patch
32 gentoo-sources. I've gone back and forth between the two at different
33 times. One reason to stick with gentoo-sources is that vanilla-sources
34 (and presumably source directly from kernel.org) isn't supported by
35 Gentoo Security. Not sure how important that is to an individual
36 though.
37
38 > However, checking the Changelog for gentoo-sources I do not
39 > see any indication of a possible patch to fix 3.3.0.  Maybe
40 > I'm just not looking in the right place.
41 >
42
43 Dunno. I can only report that my laptop seems happy with
44 gentoo-source-3.3.0 + nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1. Frame rate is OK. No
45 weird messages so far in dmesg. Nothing much else to report.
46
47 Have fun,
48 Mark
49
50 > Frank Peters
51 >
52 >

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Kernel-3.3.0 and Nvidia-drivers Barry Schwartz <chemoelectric@×××××××××××××.org>