feld@skeletor ~ $ nvidia-settings The program 'nvidia-settings' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'. (Details: serial 93 error_code 8 request_code 148 minor_code 4) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.) ######## feld@skeletor ~ $ emerge --info Portage 2.1_pre7-r5 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.4-r1, 2.6.16-gentoo-r2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r2 i686 AMD K7 processo Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre17 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 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-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=i686 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=i686 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/mnt/files/gentoo/distfiles/" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg ccache confcache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/" LANG="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/mnt/files/gentoo/packages/" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X aac acpi alsa amd apm asf audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 bzlib cddb cdparanoia cdr cdrom chroot codecs crypt css cups dbus dhcp divx4linux dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode ext-png ext-zlib ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran freetype gdbm gecko-sdk gif gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal ide imagemagick imlib imlib2 ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kde libg++ libwww lm_sensors mad mikmod mmx mmxext mono motif mozilla mozpango mozsvg mp3 mpeg mpeg4 mplayer musicbrainz mysql nas ncurses nfs nonfsv4 nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pdf pdflib perl png ppds pppd python qt quicktime readline real samba sasl sdl spell sse ssl svga tcpd theora threads transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales utf8 vcd videos vorbis win32codecs wmf x264 xine xml2 xscreensaver xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_vmmouse kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_nvidia video_cards_vmware" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS Please tell me what is wrong. I really miss having nvidia-settings!
Which version of nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx do you have checked out?
glx: 1.0.8756 kernel: 1.0.8756
I as well have a similar bug media-video/nvidia-settings-1.0.20051122-r3 media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.8756 media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.8756 USE="-dlloader" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- kormoc@kormoc ~ $ nvidia-settings The program 'nvidia-settings' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'. (Details: serial 89 error_code 8 request_code 145 minor_code 4) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- kormoc@kormoc ~ $ emerge --info Portage 2.1_pre9-r4 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.4-r1, 2.6.17-rc2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-rc2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre18 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2-r1 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r1 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 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-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/tmp/disfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache digest distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/tmp/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa apm avi bitmap-fonts cli crypt cups dri eds emboss encode foomaticdb fortran gif gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib isdnlog jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mmx2 motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl pic png pppd python qt quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl sse ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis xinerama xml2 xmms xorg xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_nvidia video_cards_nv" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
Please, try with nvidia-settings-1.0.20060516-r1 and x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8774 and report back.
Looks good now, it all works fine. Thanks very much.
