Re: [gentoo] Nvidia drivers with KDE, OpenGL problem

Marcin Balcerzak staggered into the Black Sun and said:
I'm looking for [a] solution [to] my problem, [getting] Nvidia drivers
to work with my Gentoo (latest, as for now, portage, kernel
2.6.19-gentoo-r5, KDE 3.5.5). Graphics card is one with a Geforce
6200. It should be supported by nvidia-drivers.

My USE contains among others: opengl, nvidia, alsa, qt3, qt4, kde, X.
Both emerge -Du world and emerge -Du --newuse world do nothing as
nothing is to be done. In /etc/X11/XF86Config

ITYM xorg.conf . If xorg.conf exists, Xorg will use it in preference to
XF86Config. Rename your config file.

in [the] Module section, [I have] Load "glx" instead of "dri". OpenGL
works very well, [but it's] [damnably] slow.

What's "glxinfo | grep vendor" say? It should say:

mallory:~$ glxinfo | grep vendor
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
client glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation

Splash screen of Nvidia emerges, [then] it hangs on "loading the
desktop". Ctrl+alt+del doesn't help - only hard reset.

Which version of the evil nVidia modules are you using? 8776 is the one
that's current (or was current a few days ago). Is there anything in
dmesg about problems with the evil modules?

1) Uninstall nvidia-drivers (emerge -C).
2) Download drivers from nvidia.com, install it (sh thislongname.run).
3) eselect opengl list
shows only xorg-x11.

eselect requires some stuff that's in the Gentoo ebuild that isn't in
the official package. You'll have to create symlinks manually for at
least libGLcore and libGL if you want to try this. Don't bother; use
the portage system, that's what it's designed for.

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