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A emerge update after a recent sync turns up the following message: |
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!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "nvidia-kernel" have been masked. |
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!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete |
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your request: |
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- media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.7676-r1 (masked by: package.mask) |
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# These two package do more harm than good w/ hardened. |
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# users must now the opensource xorg nv driver with nvidia cards. |
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# By placing Driver "nv" in xorg.conf |
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# 2006-06-29 solar |
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Ditto with the new nvidia-drivers package. |
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A few questions: |
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1. nv still doesn't do 3D acceleration, right? |
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2. Is there more information about what "more harm than good" means? |
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I tried googling but the only thing I found was a commit log on |
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solar's website with a one-liner about p.masking nvidia-kernel. I |
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want to know what kind of problems that nvidia drivers incur so I |
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can decided whether to give up 3D acceleration, the hardened |
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profile, or ignore solar's advice and unmask the packages. |
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3. Is this (the fact that I am running a hardened profile) the reason |
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that if I 'emerge --pretend --update xorg-x11 --verbose', among the |
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list of VIDEO_CARDS options displayed, I do not see nvidia? |
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Thanks, |
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W |
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A boy mathematician and a girl mathematician face each other from |
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opposite sides of a room, and at the same time a boy engineer and a |
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girl engineer face each other from opposite sides of the room. At the |
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end of each minute, each boy-girl pair is allowed to halve their |
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distance from each other. The boy and girl mathematicians never meet, |
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but after a few minutes the engineers get close enough "for all |
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practical purposes." |
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