I recently installed a brand new gentoo from stage 1, I'm trying to get the nvidia module to work.
Note that on the same system I have a mandrake installation on which the nvidia module works perfectly. The kernel was built from gentoo-sources, after which I emerged nvidia-kernel. XF86Config-4 is configured correctly (actually I just copied it over from the mandrake system). The module doesn't load automatically on boot, although the relevant entries have been automagically added in modules.conf. However, insmod nvidia works, and the correct /dev/ entries are created. However, startx fails in any case (with nvidia module loaded or not). The error message says that nvidia module was not found. I have tried to fiddle with the nvidia entry in modules.d but nothing seems to work. Any hints ? -- Michele Alzetta -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
