xorg-x11-7.2 nvidia-drivers-1.0.9746 The problem occured after upgrading xorg-x11 and nvidia-drivers. When I switch to virtual console (ctrl+alt+F*) I see red horizontal lines with no text. Sometimes it's just random image with white dots and small blocks on black screen. I can type things there and execute commands but blindly. Note that on my laptop is not impossible to use non-proprietary nv driver because of the similar problem in X(not in VC). Reproducible: Always Portage 2.1.2-r9 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4, 2.6.18-suspend2-r2 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18-suspend2-r2 x86_64 AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology MT-32 Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 22:30:01 +0000 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4, 2.4.4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17, 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3, 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4, 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -msse3 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -msse3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j2" 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="X a52 aac acpi alsa amd64 apache2 audiofile bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 cairo cdr cli contentcache cracklib crypt dbus disassembler djvu dlloader dvb dvd dvdr dvdread dvi encode examples fat ffmpeg firefox flac fuse gd gdbm gif glibc-omitfp glitz gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal howl iconv imagemagick immqt isdnlog java java5 javascript jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility ldap libg++ libnotify mad midi mikmod mjpeg mng mp3 mpeg mplayer music musicbrainz mysql nautilus ncurses nforce2 nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs nvidia ogg opengl pam pcre pdf pdo php plotutils pmu png postgres ppds pppd python qt3 quicktime readline reflection reiserfs ruby samba sdl session sharedmem sndfile socks5 spell spl sqlite ssl subtitles svg tagwriting tcpd theora tidy truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode urandom usb vcd vorbis xforms xfs xine xml xorg xv xvid zip zlib" ALSA_CARDS="snd-intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia vesa vmware" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Created attachment 109708 [details] nvidia-bug-report.log
Created attachment 109709 [details] xorg.conf
Created attachment 109711 [details] Xorg.0.log
Downgraded to nvidia-drivers-1.0.9631 No bug now.
This sounds like it's a bug in the binary driver. There are newer versions available in the tree, you can test those but ultimately you're going to have to talk to nVidia about this issue.
I tried BETA drivers (100.x.x) about a week or two ago. They worked fine.
