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On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I'm reading all these messages about Nvidia driver versions causing problems |
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> and I'm wondering if for my next box I should just stick with radeon, which |
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> has not really given me any trouble for as long as I can remember. |
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Mick, |
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I've been running nvidia-drivers on my Gentoo laptop for three years |
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and have two major problems: |
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1. Any particular nvidia driver version is only compatible with only |
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certain kernel versions. This condition is due to the way the NVIDIA |
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driver works. Gentoo portage was just not designed to handle such a |
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rule "package x requires kernel y" so it is left to us users to deal |
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with via masks. For some reason (?) I only had to deal with this rule |
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during the period ~July 2013 - October 2013. |
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2. The latest stable version of the nvidia drivers do not allow |
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gnome-terminal windows to close. This problem too just started |
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happening after years of trouble-free gnome-terminal closing. |
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It is frustrating... but I'm stuck with NVIDIA-drivers because I use |
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CUDA. If 1) this sort of thing bothers you and 2) radeon doesn't have |
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similar problems, then by all means please switch to radeon and let us |
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know how it goes! |
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PS: Installing the CUDA runtime and SDK is easier on Gentoo than on |
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any other linux distro. |
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Chris |
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