2.6.8-r5 ? huh?

Aman9090 · Apprentice Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 234

Hey fellas, I am inside the gentoo livecd and now see a 2.6.8-r5 gentoo-dev-sources kernel in my portage tree. Does anybody know if this fixes the problems with the nForce 3 250gb? I am going to emerge that and see what happens. I will report back immeidately on information on if it is good/bad

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But please, save me the trouble (I have to watch the debate tonight!) if anybody already knows. Thanks!!

Andrew Grathwohl

AlyM · Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 6:34 pm Post subject:

The earlier 2.6.8 gentoo-dev-sources didn't help me with my nforce 3 250, I ended up just using a 2.6.7 kernel (vanilla incidently, not had any problems with it) with the binary driver for the network card from the nvidia website. However, I don't think it was -r5 I tried, so if that fixes it I would be interested to hear, I'd rather use an in-kernel driver for networking if possible.

pzgren · Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 7:15 pm Post subject:

http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/sys-kernel/gentoo-dev-sources/ChangeLog

Hmm...

Marcus

Tsonn · Guru Joined: 03 Jun 2004 Posts: 550

They don't seem to mention any of the problems I've seen with 2.6.8-r4

... namely no direct rendering, problems with shared memory, and failure to compile unless you enable HPET_TIMER...
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