Hi, thank you for including the new nvidia-drivers quickly! Everything is working fine again!
Best regards, Meino meino.cra...@gmx.de <meino.cra...@gmx.de> [16-09-09 05:28]: > Hi, > > Linux kernel < 4.7.0 cannot be compiled with nvidia-drivers newer than > 367.35-r1. > Linux kernel >= 4.70 cannot be compiled with nvidia-drivers older than 370.23. > > According to this > http://www.heise.de/security/meldung/Sicherheitsforscher-kapern-HTTP-Verbindungen-von-Linux-3292257.html > Linux kernels < 4.7.0 are affected by a security bug. > > Unfortunately nvidia-drivers 370.23 has a bug too: Blender (and may be > other similiar programs) crash when accessing certain funtionality > of that driver. > > I reported that bug here: > https://developer.blender.org/T49113 > > Due to that a bug was reported to nvidia and they accepted and fixed > that bug with nvidia dirvers 370.23, which became already available. > > Without that driver all Blender users have to stick with a Linux > kernel with a security problem or have to quit using Blender... > > Would it be possible to integrate the newest nvidia-driver 370.28 into > Gentoo so that users of Blender and similiar programs could happily > switch to Linux kernel >=4.7.0 (4.7.3) ? > > Thank you very much for your help and understanding for a Blender > freak ! :)) > > Best regards, > Meino
