From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JK0wN-0007Ne-6Q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:36:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9AC10E0743; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:36:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.171]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 548DAE0743 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:36:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id j3so263003ugf.49 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:36:32 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=57s8RfcrA3MdBahs7+eTt8zudUBIzTWwX9zoy7vQ2Ak=; b=x9hQjTRYoTsrT6fjB4AlDpoaiK4H6J9zdFDPY02Emuys8LkIVj3mD2aYykQKI2Vav/+jFDAZG0su7FwIRT0BuQdqzFVhow8M/u9Pcy/mkui95fgEtzJI08PTLTUsFHeB2ausgAsXawTuUmD7/iiuFOiy2C1D8QI6HGLK8fJj48E= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=nZUStAHhX20sETQLWMwMpRlCZFQtVZle33izdiEAAS0rFz0/rU4535817gd9ydw6bgkM28tW5xpxkUzz4s4X3Dj2DSdt5NuxUaUUrNAoeCSzDhqmcWAsAITJh/Tl87BzQm7JHFyUm0TsUIkveQeJRbXgy1fjo+RBDfUgLU/VyQ0= Received: by 10.67.21.11 with SMTP id y11mr2128005ugi.10.1201653392273; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:36:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from ilievnet.com ( [84.21.204.1]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 36sm1422606ugb.87.2008.01.29.16.36.29 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:36:29 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:36:27 +0200 From: Daniel Iliev To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Strange Xorg behaviour, not (always) loading nvidia module Message-ID: <20080130023627.0cf1d484@ilievnet.com> In-Reply-To: References: <200801300038.00574.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.12.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 682894c3-78ce-471e-ae40-4f0e07b1c67a X-Archives-Hash: b6fd19825db1386bc0bf2e3c97304f04 On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:01:00 +0100 Pupino wrote: > > any clues in /var/log/Xorg.0.log? > > Yes! I've found this: > (EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver > not found) that is the only error reported... > But this suggests me nothing... I've looked at eselect and nvidia is > the opengl interface... > revdep-rebuild tells it's all ok... > I knew not other places to investigate... > > Davide All you have to do in order to get the proprietery nvidia drv working is: 1) make sure the open src nvidia drv is not built in-kernel or as kernel module: ======== Location: -> Device Drivers -> Graphics support -> Support for frame buffer devices (FB [=n]) -> nVidia Framebuffer Support = [N] ======== 2) emerge nvidia-drivers 3) make sure /etc/X11/xorg.conf has >Driver "nvidia"<, not "nv" in section "Device" 4) eselect opengl set nvidia HTH -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list