From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PSsKy-00013f-Su for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:28:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 08E25E0891; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:27:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f180.google.com (mail-gx0-f180.google.com [209.85.161.180]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3686E0891 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:27:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk19 with SMTP id 19so1296143gxk.11 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 06:27:21 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=yF/6vRZGhsnE2bFeIqhDiEfysffZcFWvk8G2PxU0JGo=; b=Jtf8zoBfP4kNtllsyxbUVgF8mtoroJyVfqKi5X4Rl4aoelxZH6/NnwdKXw8Lygc+xR FzdN2Xs57P7bwtw5RoS8Wafed2CO499Kv7QVjmKbAEQMFvCn0arA72mPUkuTrLh/dkvl QqJ3gEUl50yWuJYIYpOeig6vjgzTA+2wDE+Xs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=hKfFBRy3XE1dhu9a0bGZ7OxGSiTF3ok05Sq7zMA2XW9sfkjMW7LcIuvjDvJPveWP3o MgryW3/QXlhRRyIr7D0Cz+ZULNMiL7wAQ8zGI3TJySF6rLkp5Si6ds9lueHaGkEnkg87 W43ZT1e0aRaL+HcclS8YLeqG9zQkXd7OOo7NQ= Received: by 10.91.214.14 with SMTP id r14mr8469649agq.46.1292423241161; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 06:27:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.4] (adsl-0-122-154.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.122.154]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d15sm1494445ana.35.2010.12.15.06.27.19 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 15 Dec 2010 06:27:20 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D087BD2.9000709@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 02:26:58 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101212 Gentoo/2.0.11 SeaMonkey/2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-doc@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-doc@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-doc@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-doc] enabling CONFIG_SYSVIPC in the kernel for nvidia and others. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4817851b-178b-400b-897d-47b98466a97e X-Archives-Hash: 8a83ca0c5d01e16706070f01fe112df9 Hi, I ran into a problem yesterday and now that it is fixed, I wanted to mention it here to see if you think the docs need to mention this. This is a brief version. I built a new system that has a Nvidia card and a LG monitor. I could not get the GUI to work and the nvidia drivers to load properly. This is the relevant error: (EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver not found) The problem turned out to be that CONFIG_SYSVIPC was missing in the kernel. This is not just used by nvidia but it appears that at least in some cases nvidia needs that in the kernel. This is not mentioned on the nvidia driver docs page. I think it should be mentioned but it may also be needed somewhere else and someone may want to test if ATI needs the same option. I'll leave it up to the experts to decide where this should be. If it turns out that ATI needs this too, maybe it should be in the xorg configure section to cover both Nvidia and ATI. Let me know if you need more info. Thanks Dale :-) :-)