I'm getting closer to narrowing this down. One of the problems is that "/sbin/NVmakedevices.sh" has been yanked from me in some nvidia ebuild update. Grr.
Do this instead: ----------------------------------------------------------------- # /etc/conf.d/local.start # This is a good place to load any misc programs # on startup ( use 1>&2 to hide output) # added by DV as per some email discussion on the nVidia drivers and UDEV for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7; do node="/dev/nvidia$i" rm -f $node mknod $node c 195 $i || echo "mknod \"$node\"" chmod 0660 $node || echo "chmod \"$node\"" chown :video $node || echo "chown \"$node\"" done node="/dev/nvidiactl" rm -f $node mknod $node c 195 255 || echo "mknod \"$node\"" chmod 0666 $node || echo "chmod \"$node\"" chown :video $node || echo "chown \"$node\"" ----------------------------------------------------------------- The module still loaded which was throwing me off. I would have expected it not to. So what is causing X7 to crash is when I set: "eselect opengl set nvidia" X won't even start (see previous emails for the errors). It wants to. The screen goes blank and the resolution "blinks" and then crash. But if I set: "eselect opengl set xorg-x11" Then X7 starts, but glxgears appears to barely move, yet it claims ~230fps ?!!? All of this worked just fine in X6.8. I'm using the latest 8756 version of the nvidia driver. > -----Original Message----- > From: Daevid Vincent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 12:08 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Modular Xorg 7 won't start with > nVidia GeForce4 440 Go > > > I still cannot get X to start with the nvidia drivers. > However, I did take > (someones?) suggestion and tried both the "vesa" and "nv" > drivers and they > both "work". I say "work" because with 'vesa', I get a HUGE > (i.e. low rez) > screen = unuseable. And with the 'nv' I get the right > resolution 1600x1200, > but I get horrible frame-rates (glxgears). > > I tried to turn off the RenderAccel option with 'nvidia' but no joy. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list