I recently installed a pci GeForce MX 4000 that seems to be in working order on the hardware end (runs war3 tft under windows just fine). I followed the steps of the gentoo nvidia howto but my gnome background is a garbled windows is shutting down screen and a lot of gtk stuff isn't working. See http://www.raggedmountainrunning.com/~chris/Screenshot.png and http://www.raggedmountainrunning.com/~chris/Screenshot-1.png. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot up 2. After the annoying nvidia logo, log into gnome from gdm Actual Results: My background is garbled and most things don't display/refresh properly. Expected Results: Everything graphical should have looked quite nice, especially everything 3D. (glxgears runs pretty fast...) chris@speedy ~ $ glxgears -info GL_MAX_VIEWPORT_DIMS=4096/4096 GL_RENDERER = GeForce4 MX 4000/PCI/SSE2 GL_VERSION = 1.5.2 NVIDIA 66.29 GL_VENDOR = NVIDIA Corporation GL_EXTENSIONS = GL_ARB_imaging GL_ARB_multitexture GL_ARB_point_parameters GL_ARB_point_sprite GL_ARB_shader_objects GL_ARB_shading_language_100 GL_ARB_texture_compression GL_ARB_texture_cube_map GL_ARB_texture_env_add GL_ARB_texture_env_combine GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3 GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat GL_ARB_texture_rectangle GL_ARB_transpose_matrix GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object GL_ARB_vertex_program GL_ARB_vertex_shader GL_ARB_window_pos GL_S3_s3tc GL_EXT_texture_env_add GL_EXT_abgr GL_EXT_bgra GL_EXT_blend_color GL_EXT_blend_minmax GL_EXT_blend_subtract GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array GL_EXT_Cg_shader GL_EXT_draw_range_elements GL_EXT_fog_coord GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays GL_EXT_packed_pixels GL_EXT_paletted_texture GL_EXT_pixel_buffer_object GL_EXT_point_parameters GL_EXT_rescale_normal GL_EXT_secondary_color GL_EXT_separate_specular_color GL_EXT_shared_texture_palette GL_EXT_stencil_wrap GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc GL_EXT_texture_cube_map GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp GL_EXT_texture_env_combine GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3 GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic GL_EXT_texture_lod GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias GL_EXT_texture_object GL_EXT_vertex_array GL_IBM_rasterpos_clip GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat GL_KTX_buffer_region GL_NV_blend_square GL_NV_fence GL_NV_fog_distance GL_NV_light_max_exponent GL_NV_packed_depth_stencil GL_NV_pixel_data_range GL_NV_point_sprite GL_NV_register_combiners GL_NV_texgen_reflection GL_NV_texture_env_combine4 GL_NV_texture_rectangle GL_NV_vertex_array_range GL_NV_vertex_array_range2 GL_NV_vertex_program GL_NV_vertex_program1_1 GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap GL_SGIS_multitexture GL_SGIS_texture_lod GL_SUN_slice_accum 4719 frames in 5.0 seconds = 943.800 FPS 5074 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1014.800 FPS 6098 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1219.600 FPS 5893 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1178.600 FPS 6195 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1239.000 FPS 6258 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1251.600 FPS chris@speedy ~ $ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "My Layout" Screen 0 "My Screen" 0 0 InputDevice "Kensington Mouse" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Kensington Keyboard" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "Files" RgbPath "/usr/lib/X11/rgb" ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Speedo/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/CID/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/" EndSection Section "Module" Load "extmod" #Load "dri" Load "dbe" Load "record" Load "xtrap" Load "glx" Load "speedo" Load "type1" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Kensington Keyboard" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc101" Option "XkbLayout" "us_intl" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Kensington Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Optiquest Monitor" VendorName "Optiquest" ModelName "Q71" HorizSync 30.0 - 70.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 120.0 EndSection Section "Device" ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False", ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz" ### [arg]: arg optional #Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>] #Option "HWcursor" # [<bool>] #Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>] #Option "ShowCache" # [<bool>] #Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>] #Option "UseFBDev" # [<bool>] #Option "Rotate" # [<str>] #Option "VideoKey" # <i> #Option "FlatPanel" # [<bool>] #Option "FPDither" # [<bool>] #Option "CrtcNumber" # <i> Identifier "nVidia GeForce MX 4000" VendorName "nVidia Corporation" Driver "nvidia" BusID "PCI:0:13:0" VideoRam 131072 EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "My Screen" Device "nVidia GeForce MX 4000" Monitor "Optiquest Monitor" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 1 Modes "1152x864" "800x600" "640x480" Black 0 0 5 White 150 255 150 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1152x864" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1152x864" "800x600" EndSubSection EndSection speedy chris # emerge -pv nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r3 0 kB [ebuild R ] media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.6629-r4 0 kB speedy chris # emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/x86/2004.0, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.9-gentoo-r9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r9 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1.70GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.9 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Jun 13 2004, 20:36:48)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.4, 1.8.5-r3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.4_p6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.22 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=i686 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/share/config:/usr/kde/3.3/env:/usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://www.die.unipd.it/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo-sources/ http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://gentoo.math.bme.hu http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aac aalib aim alsa apm avi bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr crypt cups dba doc editor encode esd fam flac flash font-server foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imagemagick imlib ipv6 irc jabber jack java javascript jikes jpeg junit ldap libclamav libg++ libwww mad mikmod mng motif mozilla mpeg msn mysql nas ncurses nls nocd oav odbc oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl php png ppds prelude python quicktime readline rss samba scanner slang speex spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff timidity truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts videos wmf x86 xml xml2 xmms xprint xv yahoo zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
I have had the same problem as stated above but I have the AGP Riva TNT2 Ultra Card (Yes it is old and it work under windows). I am using 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 kernel and the latest nvidia drivers (both kernel and glx). I run KDE and it become compleatly unusable. Any hints as to what causes this (Gnome vs KDE)? The Gnome looks better then what I get. The X server responds to Alt+Ctl+Bsp which is good because I would not be able to shut it down with the mouse. My layout and config is essentially the same as the description. Hope a solution comes around. I did read that not having ACPI compiled into the kernel would help and I am trying that now.
I reinstalled and everything works. Maybe some version upgrades fixed the problem. Maybe it was a xorg.conf issue. Maybe it was ACPI. Whatever it was, it looks like the problem isn't widspread. I'm going to go ahead and mark the bug worksforme.