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 1OD8zJ-0001Jy-7s for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 15 May 2010 04:28:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C8831E06F7; Sat, 15 May 2010 04:27:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1CCFE06F7 for ; Sat, 15 May 2010 04:27:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 277E81B4003 for ; Sat, 15 May 2010 04:27:48 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.989 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.989 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.390, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id CSTLd-Z7D+Dy for ; Sat, 15 May 2010 04:27:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FBF01B402B for ; Sat, 15 May 2010 04:27:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OD8yD-0005l9-0j for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 15 May 2010 06:27:25 +0200 Received: from athedsl-378478.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.30.108]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 15 May 2010 06:27:25 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-378478.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 15 May 2010 06:27:25 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org connect(): No such file or directory From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: glx & dri fail to load for nv Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 07:27:48 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: 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=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-378478.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100410 Thunderbird/3.0.4 In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: d7628f3d-1099-43d3-91df-72990c6c9763 X-Archives-Hash: 4430d3e64b10bc3bef1c7ed9a4e62c3a On 05/15/2010 06:31 AM, Grant wrote: > I'm seeing tearing from the nv xorg driver. I think it's because the > glx and dri modules are failing to load, and I think that's because > I'm missing a kernel option or two. Can anyone tell me what I might > be missing in the kernel for an Nvidia card? > > BTW, the proprietary nvidia driver works great but I'd like to get nv > working too. A bit off-topic, but nv is dead upstream (NVidia dropped it). You might want to look into the Nouveau open source driver if you have hardware supported by it (it even supports 3D): http://nouveau.freedesktop.org It's better than the crappy "nv" driver by orders of magnitude.