On my AthlonXP with VIA chipset, I cannot use AGP (either kernel orWhen I first switched to Gentoo, I tried using the ebuilds for the nvidia kernel and glx and couldn't get them to work right even with the command "opengl-update nvidia". I use the Nvidia packages from nvidia.org and have never had any trouble with them other than when I updated to the linux 2.6 kernel and they hadn't made one yet for that kernel. In this case, I found the patched one for this kernel by searching the forum. I have had to make some adjustments to pam console configuration and search for and removed or rename some of the libraries that were installed by Mesa. All of this is mentioned in the readme from nvidia.
nvidia option) or nvidia (4496 or earlier levels) locks up tighter than
a drum. I wish that nvidia knew what the [EMAIL PROTECTED] they were doing when it
comes to coding.
I just this morning downloaded and installed NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run from nvidia.org and it installed and is running without any problems. I have a Riva TNT2 card
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