Hi, I recently changed my graphical card to a new fanless model : Geforce 6200 TC PCI-E. Exactly, lspci gives this information (ASUS card) : 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 6200 TurboCache(TM) (rev a1) I configured my xorg.conf as usual, and tried to launch X server => PC just hanged. Rebooted, and verified logs. It seemed that nvidia module couldn't find /dev/nvidia* files. I created them with NVmakedevices.sh, and tried again : hanged again. I then checked logs, but found nothing to help with this problem. So, I tried to install new nvidia drivers : added this to /etc/portage/package.keywords : media-video/nvidia-kernel ~x86 media-video/nvidia-glx ~x86 Emerged new versions of these packages, and it just worked, without any further configuration. Maybe these drivers are just too old for this type of card ? Anyway I hope this report may help other users with the same problem ;-) ----- Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.5-r3, 2.6.15-gentoo-r1-custom i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r1-custom i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-Os -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ http://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/mirrors/gentoo" LINGUAS="fr" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cli crypt ctype cups dba dri emboss encode expat fastbuild fbcon firefox foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imlib isdnlog jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad memlimit mikmod mmx mmxext motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl ogg opengl pam pcre pdflib perl png posix pppd python qt quicktime readline samba sdl session simplexml soap sockets spell spl sse sse2 ssl tcpd tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev vorbis xml xmms xsl xv xvid zlib linguas_fr userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Since you fixed it, I will mark is as FIXED. Sometimes the stable drivers don't work with all cards. I hope to move the latest to stable at some point.
