On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Mick <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm reading all these messages about Nvidia driver versions causing problems > and I'm wondering if for my next box I should just stick with radeon, which > has not really given me any trouble for as long as I can remember.
Mick, I've been running nvidia-drivers on my Gentoo laptop for three years and have two major problems: 1. Any particular nvidia driver version is only compatible with only certain kernel versions. This condition is due to the way the NVIDIA driver works. Gentoo portage was just not designed to handle such a rule "package x requires kernel y" so it is left to us users to deal with via masks. For some reason (?) I only had to deal with this rule during the period ~July 2013 - October 2013. 2. The latest stable version of the nvidia drivers do not allow gnome-terminal windows to close. This problem too just started happening after years of trouble-free gnome-terminal closing. It is frustrating... but I'm stuck with NVIDIA-drivers because I use CUDA. If 1) this sort of thing bothers you and 2) radeon doesn't have similar problems, then by all means please switch to radeon and let us know how it goes! PS: Installing the CUDA runtime and SDK is easier on Gentoo than on any other linux distro. Chris
