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Bug#: 213157
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Status: RESOLVED
Resolution: FIXED
Assigned To: Tony Vroon <chainsaw@gentoo.org>
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Reporter: cucu ionut <cuciferus@gmail.com>
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Description:   Opened: 2008-03-12 15:06 0000 
nvidia driver also requieres CONFIG_SYSVIPC to be enabled. Should it not be
enabled the package is yet installing but the driver is unusable and will not
start

Reproducible: Always

------- Comment #1 From Doug Goldstein 2008-03-12 15:18:50 0000 ------- 
what's the error you get?

------- Comment #2 From cucu ionut 2008-03-12 15:36:04 0000 ------- 
I get "unable to get GLX extension (compatible nvidia driver not found)" or
something close to that.

------- Comment #3 From Doug Goldstein 2008-03-12 16:27:36 0000 ------- 
what program gave that error?

------- Comment #4 From Doug Goldstein 2008-03-12 16:27:49 0000 ------- 
Do you have dmesg output?

------- Comment #5 From cucu ionut 2008-03-12 16:45:46 0000 ------- 
sorry I might have been a little hazy on the first post. So I'll try my
explination again:
without CONFIG_SYSVIPC enabled in kernel although nvidia-driver installs and
modprobe nvidia works fine, X server will not start with "unable to get GLX
extension (compatible nvidia driver not found)" error found in X log. enabling
that kernel option will make everything work again

------- Comment #6 From Doug Goldstein 2008-03-12 17:00:48 0000 ------- 
The error message you're pasting is the error message you'd get for not running
eselect opengl set nvidia

------- Comment #7 From cucu ionut 2008-03-12 18:46:41 0000 ------- 
are you sure? because I ran eselect opengl set nvidia and nothing happened. I
did modprobe -r nvidia; modprobe nvidia you know the works, but only that
helped. I do agree that CONFIG_SYSVIPC is usually enabled by most users hence
this might be a very rare situation, but some checking this option out will
eventually help other lightheaded users like myself. Also the mandatory option
is in nvidia's official docs
:http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-9755/README/chapter-05.html
but my fault is that I've forgot to mention I had that eror mentioned there
also. I'm sorry it only dawned on me that I've missed to mention that error
also. Please accept my apologies, but in my defense Xorg log got rewritten when
I've started X again.

------- Comment #8 From Doug Goldstein 2008-05-07 14:56:55 0000 ------- 
Chainsaw is taking over this package.

------- Comment #9 From Tony Vroon 2008-07-31 13:06:50 0000 ------- 
Agreed, it is useful to only build the driver when we can be sure it will work
correctly. Sorry that this lingered a bit, it has been addressed in the new
173.14.12 ebuild for bug #233418.
Thank you for your contribution to Gentoo Linux :)
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