Bug 519558 – nvidia-driver.eclass warns about unsupported device that is actually supported

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description kavol 2014-08-10 08:34:15 UTC]

The subject says that all ... after emerging nvidia-drivers, I get:

 * Messages for package x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-340.24:

 * ***** WARNING *****
 * 
 * You are currently installing a version of nvidia-drivers that is
 * known not to work with a video card you have installed on your
 * system. If this is intentional, please ignore this. If it is not
 * please perform the following steps:
 * 
 * Add the following mask entry to /etc/portage/package.mask by
 * echo ">=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-341.0.0" >> /etc/portage/package.mask
 * 
 * Failure to perform the steps above could result in a non-working
 * X setup.
 * 
 * For more information please read:
 * http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_32667.html



However, my card is listed as supported with this version and X obviously works ...

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 kavol 2014-08-10 08:35:03 UTC]

"my card" - read as

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] (rev a2)

or

01:00.0 0300: 10de:0a65 (rev a2)

[Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2014-08-10 10:01:54 UTC]

Looks like I misinterpreted the return value from versionator.eclass' version_compare() slightly.

[Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2014-08-10 10:02:55 UTC]

Should be fixed in CVS.

[Comment 4 kavol 2014-08-12 12:34:40 UTC]

(In reply to Jeroen Roovers from comment #3)
> Should be fixed in CVS.

thanks, I'm no longer getting the message