The summery pretty much says it all. I think it created a lot of problems, such as not being able to use the nvidia driver, itself - X wont start after configuring it to work with the nvidia driver. by the way, could this libGL.la thing be the problem? I would love to know. I'll stick to the bug itself though. the error messege after compiling is: !!! Error: Failed to create //usr/lib/libGL.la I know it doesn't help much but I don't know which of the other output should I put in. here's some other information: emerge --info: Portage 2.1_pre10-r5 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre15 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] 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-r1 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="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=pentium4" 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/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=pentium4" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/pub/mirrors/gentoo/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aim alsa apm arts avi berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr cli crypt cups debug dri dvd dvdr eds emboss encode foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib ipod ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde libg++ libwww lm_sensors mad mikmod motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pcre pdf pdflib perl png pppd python qt quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis win32codecs xml2 xmms xorg xv xvid yahoo zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_i810 video_cards_nvidia video_cards_tga video_cards_v4l video_cards_vesa video_cards_vga video_cards_nv" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY some versions of packages that might have something to do with the problem: nvidia-glx: 1.0.8756 nvidia-kernel: 1.0.8756 mesa: 6.4.2-r2 eselect: 1.0_rc2 opengl-update: 3.0.0 xorg-x11: 6.8.2-r6
*** Bug 133730 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 141238 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
We've migrated to newer nvidia driver packages, in the process this bug was fixed and never marked as such.