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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 22:13:22
Message-Id: CAK2H+edeHba_gLLSB8+WL-ou4tjHoEDav_ipZ+FCPiM4797M8g@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics. by Neil Bothwick
1 On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
2 <SNIP>
3 >
4 >> > No! It is not the latest. It's just what portage is offering you. The
5 >> > link I sent you clearly (!?) stated that you need to be running the
6 >> > latest 'Certified' driver revision 275.09.07 to get this fix. Just
7 >> > because the Gentoo devs haven't marked it as stable does (to me) mean
8 >> > that I should take their word for it.
9 >
10 > If Nvidia say to use the later version because they know the current
11 > arch version is broken, you should follow their advice and not ignore it
12 > simply because of a keyword setting in the ebuild.
13 >
14 >
15 > --
16 > Neil Bothwick
17
18 And of course I would screw up my response by writing
19
20 [QUOTE]
21 Just because the Gentoo devs haven't marked it as stable
22 does (to me) mean that I should take their word for it.
23 [/QUOTE]
24
25 instead of what I meant, which would have been
26
27 [SUBSTITUTE]
28 Just because the Gentoo devs haven't marked it as stable
29 ***DOESN'T*** (to me) mean that I should take their word for it.
30 [/SUBSTITUTE]
31
32 Sorry!
33
34 - Mark

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