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nvidia-graphics-drivers package

  1. Bug #627022
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 627022

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In , Christian Ruppert (idl0r) wrote :

Latest keyworded drivers doesn't build with >=kernel-2.6.36.
/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-256.53/work/kernel/nv.c:426: error: unknown field 'ioctl' specified in initializer
/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-256.53/work/kernel/nv.c:426: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
make[4]: *** [/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-256.53/work/kernel/nv.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [_module_/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-256.53/work/kernel] Error 2

nvidia-drivers-260.19.12 seems to be the latest stable version from nvidia but its still hardmasked as "beta".

Could we fix the mask?