A emerge update after a recent sync turns up the following message: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "nvidia-kernel" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.7676-r1 (masked by: package.mask) # These two package do more harm than good w/ hardened. # users must now the opensource xorg nv driver with nvidia cards. # By placing Driver "nv" in xorg.conf # 2006-06-29 solar
Ditto with the new nvidia-drivers package. A few questions: 1. nv still doesn't do 3D acceleration, right? 2. Is there more information about what "more harm than good" means? I tried googling but the only thing I found was a commit log on solar's website with a one-liner about p.masking nvidia-kernel. I want to know what kind of problems that nvidia drivers incur so I can decided whether to give up 3D acceleration, the hardened profile, or ignore solar's advice and unmask the packages. 3. Is this (the fact that I am running a hardened profile) the reason that if I 'emerge --pretend --update xorg-x11 --verbose', among the list of VIDEO_CARDS options displayed, I do not see nvidia? Thanks, W -- A boy mathematician and a girl mathematician face each other from opposite sides of a room, and at the same time a boy engineer and a girl engineer face each other from opposite sides of the room. At the end of each minute, each boy-girl pair is allowed to halve their distance from each other. The boy and girl mathematicians never meet, but after a few minutes the engineers get close enough "for all practical purposes." Sortir en Pantoufles: up 5:21 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
