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From: Alexey Eschenko <skobkin-ru@××.ru>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-391+ does not support latest GPU?
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 13:31:54
Message-Id: 010f3620-5bcd-d7ff-6b64-000d33ebcd2b@ya.ru
1 Hi.
2
3 I've just read regular @world build log and found this:
4
5 >  * Messages for package x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-396.18-r1:
6 >
7 >  * ***** WARNING *****
8 >  *
9 >  * You are currently installing a version of nvidia-drivers that is
10 >  * known not to work with a video card you have installed on your
11 >  * system. If this is intentional, please ignore this. If it is not
12 >  * please perform the following steps:
13 >  *
14 >  * Add the following mask entry to /etc/portage/package.mask by
15 >  * echo ">=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-391.0.0" >
16 > /etc/portage/package.mask/nvidia-drivers
17 >  *
18 >  * Failure to perform the steps above could result in a non-working
19 >  * X setup.
20 >  *
21 >  * For more information please read:
22 >  * http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_32667.html
23
24 I'm very surprised because I have GTX 1080 GPU:
25
26 > # lspci | fgrep VGA
27 > 42:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP104 [GeForce
28 > GTX 1080] (rev a1)
29 Is this some kind of maintainer's mistake or does NVIDIA really messed
30 up with drivers again?
31
32 --
33 Kind regards,
34 Alexey Eschenko
35 https://skobk.in/

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