Gentoo and nVidia drivers

[Steve Dibb]

Mitch Anderson wrote:
> Over the last week, I've installed a Gentoo box on a slow Duron 800 with 
> an nVidia FX5200.  Everythings been going fine except now I'm trying to 
> get X up and running with the nVidia driver.  I've installed the 
> nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx, all goes fine.  I can get kdm to start up 
> just fine with the driver set to "nv" but when I change it to "nvidia" X 
> takes up 99% of the processor with no sign of ever giving it back.  Just 
> wondering if anyone has some pointers on what I've done wrong with the 
> kernel/nvidia configs?
> 
> 
> I've been following a couple how-to's (mostly the gentoo handbook) and 
> this:
> 
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_MythTV
> 
> And some kernel options here:
> 
> http://home.comcast.net/~alf_park/mythtv.html
> 
> I've tried with the agpgart compiled as a module, in the kernel, and not 
> at all.  All have the same result... faik
> 
> Ideas? other howtos?  I can post or make available my kernel config and 
> other use variables if needed.

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml

Put your xorg.conf in a pastebin

Steve