Which kernel version do you use? You might get the nvidia-drivers from nvidia itself and try to compile them. Maybe that will solve the problem. (For the 2.6+ kernels you need a patch from minion.de) If the driver works under another linux-distro there is no reason why it should not work under gentoo. It would at most need some more work but it should finally work.
go to http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux.html and pick the appropriate Driver for your system. Should be IA32 ... in most cases. Download it. Change to the directory where you downloaded it and do: sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run # or whatever version you downloaded This assumes that you have exited X already. You cannot do this with X up and running. You also need to be root in order to do compile and install the driver. The installer will ask you wheter you want to preceed, ... asks ya whether it should try to download a driver that suits your kernel (say no because it won't find something appropriate anyway) and then it will try to compile your driver. This should work unless you have a symlink to the wrong version of your kernel. If that is the case the installation will fail. It is very important for the /usr/src/linux symlink to point to the unpacked source of your current kernel. this is VERY VERY IMPORTNAT so always symlink it to the appropriate source with: ln -sf <Path_to_your_kernel_sources> /usr/src/linux Then try to compile the kernel again and in most cases it should work. In the readme file there is a section: (sec-03) EDITING YOUR XF86CONFIG FILE that you really should read. It says that you should replace Driver "nv" with Driver "nvidia" (that you have already done as you described in your initial posting), make sure that Load "glx" is uncommented and that the Load "dri" and Load "GLcore" are removed or commented. After these steps and provided that it succeeded remove the old nv drivers from your kernel with: rmmod nv and load the new nvidia kernel modules with: modprobe nvidia check wheter it is loaded with lsmod | grep nvidia on my box this outputs: nvidia 1701612 10 After that you may check wheter the /dev/nvidia* devices have been created by devfs as you loaded the module with: ls -l /dev/nvidia* on my box this outputs: root[www]$ls -l /dev/nvidia* crw------- 1 momesana root 195, 0 Jan 1 1970 /dev/nvidia0 crw------- 1 momesana root 195, 255 Jan 1 1970 /dev/nvidiactl Then try to load X with startx or kdm or whatever you are using. If this fails try to see wheter the configuration is allright. XF86Config files may cause the whole Xserver to act crazy if they are not setup properly. I remember that I couldn't get X running for weeks under Debian potato (I was an extreme newbie then) and this was all due to the fact that the XF86Config contained some configuration-option that needed to be uncommented. The outpout may in some cases be deceiving and confusing. Just try the differnt methods to create a new XF86Config file for example: XFree86 -configure # probes as much information as possible about your hardware and writes a small XF86Config file to /root/XF86Config.new. Run the X server with following command to test the new config file: Xfree86 -xf86config /root/XF86Config.new You also could try out xf86cfg. If they work somehow then you know that there was something wrong with the config file rather than with the drivers. Just try out all possible sollutions. Good luck and keep us informed about your progresses momesana! Am Freitag, 17. Oktober 2003 12:52 schrieb Meka[ni]: > On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 22:54:59 -0500 > > Richard Kilgore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 15. Oktober 2003 00:48 schrieb Meka[ni]: > > > Just to be sure, I'll tel you the exact commands I've executed. > > > emerge nvidia-kernel > > > emerge nvidia-glx > > > opengl-update nvidia > > > modprobe nvidia > > > change the section in XF86Config from "nv" to "nvidia". Should I do > > > something else? I still get messages in /var/log/XFree86.0.log that it > > > can not open /dev/nvidia0 for reading although the file is present and > > > has rw-rw-rw- for flags. Please save me this mess! :o) > > > > Is it a character special file that looks like this? > > > > crw------- 1 rkilgore root 195, 0 1969-12-31 18:00 > > /dev/nvidia0 > > > > -- > > Richard Kilgore > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > No. It looks like this: > crw-rw-rw- 1 rkilgore root 195, 0 1969-12-31 18:00 /dev/nvidia0 > (actually, different user and date, but the rest is the same) > > ________ > Meka[ni] > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
