Bug 477298

Summary:	fix for nvidia-drivers to build against >=3.6.10-Kernel
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jens Ott <jo>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Ebuils using the patch The actual patch fixing nv-i2c.c

Description Jens Ott 2013-07-18 12:54:41 UTC

The current ebuild nvidia-drivers (x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-325.08) is not building against 3.6.10.X kernel. I found a patch under http://pastie.org/8123499 which makes it working properly and created an ebuild using this patch on 3.6.10 kernels.

Comment 1 Jens Ott 2013-07-18 12:55:55 UTC

Created attachment 353578 [details]
Ebuils using the patch

This ebuild auto-patches if kernel is >= 3.6.10

Comment 2 Jens Ott 2013-07-18 12:56:42 UTC

Created attachment 353580 [details, diff]
The actual patch fixing nv-i2c.c

Comment 3 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-07-18 12:59:28 UTC

(Quoting Doug Goldstein from bug #447566 comment #56)
> It is and has always been Gentoo's policy to support what NVIDIA supports. The current versions of the drivers do not support 3.10. You are more than welcome to use the capabilities of epatch_user (which are present in all the ebuilds) to make the changes yourself but they do not go into the main tree.

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