The newest nvidia-drivers (x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-190.42-r2 and x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-190.42-r3) fail to load the glx module on my computer. Relevant part of Xorg.0.log (II) LoadModule: "glx" (WW) Warning, couldn't open module glx (II) UnloadModule: "glx" (EE) Failed to load module "glx" (module does not exist, 0) ... (**) Nov 09 14:57:54 NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration (EE) Nov 09 14:57:54 NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the GLX module; please chec k in your X (EE) Nov 09 14:57:54 NVIDIA(0): log file that the GLX module has been loaded in your X (EE) Nov 09 14:57:54 NVIDIA(0): server, and that the module is the NVIDIA GL X module. If (EE) Nov 09 14:57:54 NVIDIA(0): you continue to encounter problems, Please t ry (EE) Nov 09 14:57:54 NVIDIA(0): reinstalling the NVIDIA driver. I tracked down the issue to a miss created symlink. The ebuild creates this /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so.190.42 -> ../../../opengl/nvidia/extensions/libglx.so.190.42 while the older ebuilds created this /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so -> ../../../opengl/nvidia/extensions/libglx.so.190.42 Renaming it fixes my issue. If you need/want more information just ask. Danger
run eselect opengl set nvidia
(In reply to comment #1) > run eselect opengl set nvidia That is what sets the mentioned wrong symlink.
Running "eselect opengl set nvidia" changes the symlink to the one causing me problems ... patrik-desktop extensions > pwd /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions patrik-desktop extensions > ls -Al total 144 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18252 Nov 9 15:22 libdbe.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 93012 Nov 9 15:22 libextmod.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 50 Nov 10 22:41 libglx.so -> ../../../opengl/nvidia/extensions/libglx.so.190.42 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 26488 Nov 9 15:22 librecord.so patrik-desktop extensions > eselect opengl set nvidia Switching to nvidia OpenGL interface... done patrik-desktop extensions > ls -Al total 144 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18252 Nov 9 15:22 libdbe.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 93012 Nov 9 15:22 libextmod.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 50 Nov 10 22:43 libglx.so.190.42 -> ../../../opengl/nvidia/extensions/libglx.so.190.42 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 26488 Nov 9 15:22 librecord.so Some version information ... patrik-desktop extensions > eselect version eselect 1.2.6 Copyright (c) 2005-2009 Gentoo Foundation. Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2. patrik-desktop extensions > eselect opengl version Version 20091107 Anything else I can do to help?
