The latest version of nvidia-settings in portage is the beta version 173.08; however the latest version of nvidia-settings in portage is 171.05. On my 8800GTS 512Mb graphics card, using this version of nvidia-settings causes certain options to become missing. One such option is the ability to choose which display device to sync to vblank on (monitor and tv using twinview). I downloaded the source from the nvidia website, built it and ran it instead and my Xvideo options have returned. I did not have this issue with a 7600GT card, it would appear it only affects 8xxx series cards (possibly 9xxx also). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 8xxx series card (possibly includes 9xxx) 2. Install latest nvidia-drivers and nvidia-settings from within portage 3. Try select a device to sync to vblank on. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-688223-start-0-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-.html Some screenshots included above as well as link to nvidia-settings sources.
I can confirm this. I had the same problem with my GeForce 8600M GT. Installing nvidia-settings-173.08 from source fixed the problem. I first tried to install it through portage by making a copy of the nvidia-settings-171.05.ebuild and renaming it, but that didn't work (build failed because of some imake issue), so I got the latest source tarball from Nvidia's site and installed that.
Created attachment 154017 [details] Proposed fix Try this ebuild. I don't have this hardware, so I cannot test it. Looks like they don't use Imakefiles anymore.
(In reply to comment #2) > Created an attachment (id=154017) [edit] > Proposed fix > > Try this ebuild. > > I don't have this hardware, so I cannot test it. > > Looks like they don't use Imakefiles anymore. > This ebuild works fine for me :)
