This new nvidia-driver release has preliminary xorg-server 1.5 support, as stated here http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=122139 . It works for me on x86, going to test on amd64. Reproducible: Always
Thanks for reporting your test results, assigning to maintainer
Works for me too on x86. No issues.
Index: ChangeLog =================================================================== RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/ChangeLog,v retrieving revision 1.128 diff -u -b -B -r1.128 ChangeLog --- ChangeLog 16 Jan 2009 21:24:15 -0000 1.128 +++ ChangeLog 20 Jan 2009 10:49:10 -0000 @@ -2,6 +2,13 @@ # Copyright 1999-2009 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/ChangeLog,v 1.128 2009/01/16 21:24:15 cardoe Exp $ + 20 Jan 2009; Peter Alfredsen <loki_val@gentoo.org> + nvidia-drivers-96.43.09.ebuild: + Non-maintainer commit: Changing <x11-base/xorg-server-1.4.99 to + <x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.99 per bug 252359. Tested on Geforce FX 5600, + works as well as can be expected. Two users reported it working on bug + 252359. + *nvidia-drivers-180.22 (16 Jan 2009) 16 Jan 2009; Doug Goldstein <cardoe@gentoo.org> Index: nvidia-drivers-96.43.09.ebuild =================================================================== RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-96.43.09.ebuild,v retrieving revision 1.4 diff -u -b -B -r1.4 nvidia-drivers-96.43.09.ebuild --- nvidia-drivers-96.43.09.ebuild 25 Dec 2008 15:44:29 -0000 1.4 +++ nvidia-drivers-96.43.09.ebuild 20 Jan 2009 10:49:10 -0000 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# Copyright 1999-2008 Gentoo Foundation +# Copyright 1999-2009 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-96.43.09.ebuild,v 1.4 2008/12/25 15:44:29 maekke Exp $ @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ RESTRICT="strip" EMULTILIB_PKG="true" -COMMON="<x11-base/xorg-server-1.4.99 +COMMON="<x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.99 multilib? ( app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs ) kernel_FreeBSD? ( !media-video/nvidia-freebsd ) !app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-nvidia