With either the drivers installed from the ebuild or the tarball from their website what happens is once I log in to KDE, I do CTRL-ALT-F1 and instead of getting a flashing cursor I see a block. When I do CTRL-ALT-F7 to get back into X the computer freezes at the console and I have to reboot the machine. If I use the stock nv driver then everything works perfectly. I'm running a Athlon 1.7 system with XFree 4.2.0-r12 and a TNT2 M64 card. I have verified that the same system running Red Hat 7.3 and the Nvidia drivers works fine with XFree 4.2.0
heh, once i start up a X session using the NVdrive kern module, i take vt switching very seriously ... i.e. i press the buttons very softly and slowly in the hopes i dont make the computer angry do you have framebuffering setup on the consoles ? what are your XF86Config options ?
Did some additional testing and the combination of the Nvidia framebuffer code and the Nvidia drivers are the problem. I haven't had a chance to play with the XF86Config options yet.
Lockups due to using rivafb combined with the Nvidia drivers is a known issue. Either use the "nv" driver if you really want to use rivafb, or else use vesafb, which have worked just fine with the Nvidia drivers on a few different setups for me. This will have to be fixed by the kernel guys, and Nvidia, so I do not know what this have to do with us. This is not specific to Gentoo AFIAK, so closing.
