On 04/12 10:01, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 12/04/18 16:31, Alexey Eschenko wrote: > > Is this some kind of maintainer's mistake or does NVIDIA really messed > > up with drivers again? > > Before updating the nvidia driver, you should always check here: > > http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx > > and see if the version you're updating to is a beta driver or not. > > As a long time nvidia-drivers user, I really recommend to: > > 1. Use an LTS kernel series (latest LTS series is 4.14.x.) > 2. Do not install nvidia beta drivers. > 3. Do not use X.Org pre-releases. > > Currently, that means these in package.mask: > > >=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.15 > >=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-391 > >=x11-base/xorg-server-1.19.99 > > Unless you're using Chrome, where 390 has a bug that makes it unusable slow, > so you need: > > >=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-385 > > You need to check on the available versions these packages manually from > time to time to see if it's safe to update them. > > Also, nvidia driver version can be confusing. 390 is the latest stable > series, while 384 is the "LTS-like" stable series. To be frank, I find it > impossible to tell what's happening with driver releases from nvidia if I > don't read phoronix.com news. > > In any event, the TL;DR is that sticking to non-beta drivers and non-beta > xorg and the latest LTS kernel will result in avoiding the majority of > breakages. > >
hi Alexey, which in turn is, what I said before: I will be bound to older versions of software. It is, what I try to avoid. Cheers! Meino
