If I were you, I would suspect that the reason nvidia may not work is because you used genkernel (as has happened to me as the default config did not set up agp properly in one case). Genkernel also seems to create quite a few problems with its reliance on busybox when it hits some hardware unless you manually configure it (in fact I have had to manually configure every genkernel build). When genkernel matures, it will fill a nice niche, but its too flakey (sometimes works, sometimes doesnt ...) at the moment. Also, I have found grub much better than lilo these days.
Reading your original post makes me think you may have done a few steps in a "non-standard" fashion or out of order, and that is the primary cause of your problems - did you "slavishly" follow the docs or perhaps miss something. BillK On Fri, 2003-12-26 at 12:41, Scott Jackson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 04:17:29 +0000 > Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 22:01:40 -0600 Scott Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > | 1) the "emerge -k nvidia-kernel" is broken. do a "links > > | www.nvidia.com" and download the driver straight from the website, to > > | /mnt/gentoo/ > > > > It is? What kernel? Did you check bugzilla (http://bugs.gentoo.org/) and > > file a bug if necessary? It's not globally broken, as I can emerge it > > quite happily here. > > Well the reason I say it is broken is because in my experience, for some reason, > XFree doesn't recognize the driver when you emerge it, but it works fine when you > have the nVidia driver compile itself from scratch. > > > | 2) genkernel is the ONLY working option. > > > > Huh? That is obviously untrue. > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
