On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 01:13 +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 8 Nov 2009 18:46:15 -0600, Roy Wright wrote: > > > Was at xorg-server-1.6.3 and current sync tried to upgrade to 1.7.1, > > which failed to compile. In researching on b.g.o., discovered that > > nvidia has not released a driver yet that will work with 1.7.1, so > > followed the bug report directions and masked out several packages to > > prevent 1.7.1 upgrading. > > I have had xorg-server-1.7.1 and nvidia-drivers-190.42-r[23], working > together since Nov 3rd, with no masking or keywording, although this is > on ~amd64. For a while the newer xorg was blocked but as soon as the > newer nvidia-drivers hit portage, everything upgraded without a hitch. > I am just in the process of updating a machine stored for over a year - relatively straight forward except its taking awhile as expected. It has an old TNT nvidia card that needs the older drivers (169 something with 2.6.21 is working on it at the moment - I upgraded to 2.6.31 and belatedly remembered this Achilles heal for nvidia stuff :)
Are the older nvidia drivers locked to older kernels? If so, is there a map that tells what driver version is usable with which kernels? BillK
