I finally got this working it seems. These links were very helpful:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90047 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-327623.html http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=49718&highlight=glx+xorg+ge ntoo http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/search.php?searchid=464072 I can't recall the exact thing that solved it, but I suspect it was the nvidia/tls thing in the first post. I un/merged, un/masked, rm -rf so many things I can't remember anymore. But at the end of the day, I do have the latest nvidia drivers working in OpenGL glory on my Dell i8200 notebook GeForce 440 card. Glxgears gives me: 7630 frames in 5 seconds = 1526 FPS +/- Now if only I could figure out a way to get the video card to not share an IRQ with SEVEN other things including my eth0, wlan and usb amongst other things -- then it wouldn't studder. *sigh*. > -----Original Message----- > From: Daevid Vincent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 12:58 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Modular Xorg 7 won't start with > nVidia GeForce4 440 Go > > > This should not be needed. The X server (actually, the > nvidia module > > loaded in the X server) should create these automatically if they do > > not exist. From an strace of X on my system after removing the > > nvidiactl and nvidia0 device nodes: > > Okay. I removed them. Thanks. > > > > So what is causing X7 to crash is when I set: > > > "eselect opengl set nvidia" > > > > If you comment out the line: > > > > Load "glx" > > > > in xorg.conf, do you still get the crash? > > No. X starts now. But "glxgears" segfaults. > > > How are you starting the X server? Does it still crash if > > you run just "X :0"? > > I type "startx". > > X :0 just gives me (as you probably already know) a > "checker-board" backdrop > and a cursor. Can't do anything else with it. > > > Take the most recent version of nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx > > (~x86) and > > take a look at /etc/modules.d/nvidia. There something about a > > module-option for notebook systems. > > Tried various ways with and without this option enabled. > However, it says that's to solve "hard lock ups". I don't > have that problem. > X starts, then just dies (if I have the wrong combination of > eselect/glx). > It's definitely related to OpenGL now... > > Tried rebooting after a few different option/tweaks just to > be sure too. > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
