Bug 458738

Summary:	Stable x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-304.64 not compatible with stable gentoo-sources-3.7.9
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Marek Szuba <marecki>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) <cardoe>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	jer, xarthisius
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Marek Szuba archtester

2013-02-22 13:48:55 UTC

To begin with, a digression: according to the warning in the ebuilds of even the latest versions of nvidia-drivers available in Portage, kernels newer than 3.6 are not officially supported by Gentoo. The warning ends with ominous "you're on your own". Given 3.7 kernels are now marked stable on both amd64 and x86, this warning could perhaps be formulated somewhat better.

Back to the main issue, though. Version 304.64, i.e. the latest one marked stable on amd64, doesn't just leave people on their own - it just doesn't build. An "unable to determine the target kernel version" appears at the very beginning of preparing the nvidia module and that's it.

Emerging the latest amd64-unstable version, 313.18, works fine. Haven't tried hacking the makefiles of the stable version to get the test to pass.

Let me know if you need any more information.

Comment 1 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn gentoo-dev

2013-02-22 13:57:46 UTC

For the build failure, see bug 447566.
For the stabilization of newer nvidia-drivers, see bug 458666.

Comment 2 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-02-22 14:29:53 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 447566 ***