After much playing around with nvidia on my Compaq Presario R3000 (amd64 Gentoo with GeForce4 440 Go 64M), Nvidia-1.0.7174 works perfectly after kernel upgrade to 2.6.11-whatever **IF** you add the next two lines to the bottom of the /etc/modules.d/nvidia file: options nvidia NVreg_SoftEDIDs=0 options nvidia NVreg_Mobile=0 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Upgrade to kernel 2.6.11-whatever 2. Emerge nvidia-1.0.7174-whatever 3. Add the indicated two lines to the bottom of the /etc/modules.d/nvidia file: 2. 3. Actual Results: Works perfectly. Expected Results: Work perfectly. emerge info Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/amd64/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r3 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r3 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb 7 2005, 21:31:14)] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.4_p6, 1.9.4, 1.8.5-r3 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r4 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -O2" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /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=k8 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -O2" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://gentoo.eliteitminds.com ftp://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://gentoo.osuosl.org/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X acpi alsa berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl doc dvd dvdr esd fam font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimpprint gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile imagemagick imlib ipv6 jack java jp2 jpeg ldap libwww lzw lzw-tiff motif mozilla mp3 ncurses nls opengl oss pam perl png ppds python qt readline sdl ssl tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales xml xml2 xmms xpm xrandr xv zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
*** Bug 87793 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
we have a policy that says that new versions of packages will keep testing for 30 days if they're not security-related. we'll mark it stable per 1st may if there are no problems
Note that once gentoo released the 2.6.11-r6 for amd64, the nvidia driver started acting up again. I did find that things were more well behaved once I upgraded my system BIOS to the most recient version. I have no trouble changing screen resolutions. However, every now and then, the driver does not start up the first time.
