Hi Mark,

Am Donnerstag, 6. November 2003 22:27 schrieb Mark Knecht:
> On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 12:55, Matt Chorman wrote:
> > Quite simple, really.
> >
> > $ emerge nvidia-kernel
> > $ emerge nvidia-glx
> >
> > Remove any references to glcore or dri from the start of XF86Config.
> > Change the driver to
> >
> > Driver="nvidia"
> >
> > Under this line, add
> >
> > Option "RenderAccel" "true"
> > to enable hardware rendering in X.
> >
> > Viola! 2d/3d accelerated desktop with nvidia drivers!
> > - --
> > Matt
>
> Matt,
>    Thanks much. You proved I couldn't even spell NVidia! No wonder I've
> been an ATI guy up until now! ;-)
>
>    OK, everything is emerged and I've modified the XF86config file as
> instructed. I'm getting an error message
>
> NV: could not open control device /dev/nvidiactl (No such file or
> directory)
>
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module!
>
>    Indeed, /dev/nvidiactl does not exist.
>
>    Are there any specific options I needed to enable in my kernel to
> make this work? agpgart? Other stuff? dri/drm? That's required by the
> Radeon family, but this is a new box and new kernel, so likely I didn't
> get somethign turned on if required.
>
> Thanks,
> MArk

you need to run opengl-update nvidia as well. This will change the symlinks 
libGL.so and friends in /usr/lib to point to the nvidia-glx. I also have 
agpgart and dri enabled in my kernel. Don't know, if that is really needed, 
but it works here without problems (Geforce 3) :-) I have a file /etc/
modules.d/nvidia. Maybe you should run modules-update to get the entries in /
etc/modules.conf. But I'm not shure, if I did that, so perhaps you try first 
without that.

HTH,
Michael



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