i'm fixed but have seen this all day and i cant remember which is at foult but nvidia-glx & nvidia-kernel are emerging two diffrent versions on ~amd64 one is 1.0.7676-r1 and the other is 1.0.7667 and that dont work!!!!! the newer offending pkg needs to be masked to make X work.... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge world or -uD world oct... 2, xinit ...it fails with glx and kernel are two diffren versiens 3. Expected Results: x starts # emerge info Portage 2.0.53_rc5 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0/no-multilib, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3 .5-r2, 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre9 distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disab led] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.13 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O3 -funroll-loops -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share /config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib6 4/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O3 -funroll-loops -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/ distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" MAKEOPTS="-j3" 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 alsa avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cd cdr crypt cups curl dvd eds emboss encode esd fam fbcon flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg libwww lzw lzw-tiff mad mikmod motif mozilla mp 3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline sdl spell sqlite ssl tcltk tcpd tiff truetype-font s type1-fonts udev usb userlocales vorbis xine xml2 xmms xpm xv zlib userland_GN U kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
Please give the exact error as I can't see any problem from your description. It might be the case that your nvidia-kernel package is installed for a different kernel version than you are currently running. Make sure that the running kernel has the same driver version (ignoring -rX) as your nvidia-glx package.