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
what's the error you get?
I get "unable to get GLX extension (compatible nvidia driver not found)" or something close to that.
what program gave that error?
Do you have dmesg output?
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
The error message you're pasting is the error message you'd get for not running eselect opengl set nvidia
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.
Chainsaw is taking over this package.
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 :)
