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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:11:50
Message-Id: 20110711144538.24aceaab@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics. by Mark Knecht
1 On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 05:47:28 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
2
3 > > That is the latest for my card that is in the tree.
4 >
5 > No! It is not the latest. It's just what portage is offering you. The
6 > link I sent you clearly (!?) stated that you need to be running the
7 > latest 'Certified' driver revision 275.09.07 to get this fix. Just
8 > because the Gentoo devs haven't marked it as stable does (to me) mean
9 > that I should take their word for it.
10
11 Gentoo devs don't mark software as stable, they mark ebuilds as stable.
12 This has no direct link to the usability of the software itself.
13
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16 Neil Bothwick
17
18 Loose bits sink chips.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics. Michael Orlitzky <michael@××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics. Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>