On a few cards such as the Geforce4 MX440 (well, in my case the one builtin to the nforce2), the 1.0.96xx drivers simply do not work for almost any 3D application. Simple apps like glxgears look fine, but any opengl app that uses textures, the textures are all either black or dark grey. 7186 works but is not feature complete (no composite, no beryl, konsole scrolling is for some reason unaccelerated, although other scrolling is accelerated.) 8776 on the other hand seems feature complete for this era card and bug-free. Drivers >=9700 require a Geforce FX series minimum and so will not work at all. The attached URL has further discussion on nvnews.net, and they're harder to find but there's other discussions on there of similar problems; unfortunately nvidia seems to dismiss any mention of this as hardware problems, despite older drivers being rock solid. I don't think it'll be too useful, but I'll attach nvidia-bug-report.log. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use a system with a GF4 MX440, or I believe a few other cards. 2. Put on any 96xx driver 3. Run secondlife, foobillard, or any 3D app of your choice. secondilfe for instance is pitch black with white boxes for first name, last name, and password; foobillard I think the billard cues are just visible very dark grey. Portage 2.1.3.11 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.2.0, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.22-gentoo-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.22-gentoo-r7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+ Timestamp of tree: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:50:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r4, 2.5.1-r2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.10-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.22-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distcc distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/rtmp/" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://delta/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amr amrnb amrwb arts asf audiofile berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bonobo browserplugin bzip2 cairo cdr cjk cli cracklib crosscompile crypt css cups curl dbus divx4linux dri dts dv dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo expat fam fame ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gimpprint glitz glut gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal iconv idn ieee1394 imagemagick insecure-savers ipv6 irmc isdnlog java jpeg junit kde kdeenablefinal kerberos kqemu latin1 lcms ldap lua mad matroska midi mikmod mjpeg mmx mmxext mng mozsvg mp3 mpeg mudflap mysql mythtv nas ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia offensive ogg opengl openmp oss pam pcre pdf perl pic plugin png posix ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection ruby samba scanner sdl seamonkey session slang spell spl sse ssl subtitles svg tcltk tcpd threads threadsafe tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode uniq usb v4l v4l2 vorbis win32codecs wma wmf x86 xanim xine xml xml2 xorg xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Created attachment 132282 [details] File name says it -- nvidia-bug-report.log The nvidia-bug-report.log from the offending system. nforce2 chipset with Geforce4 MX440 video, set for 128MB shared memory. I've played with AGP aperature, shared mem size, even turned the AGP down to see if it'd do anything. Nothing has an affect except using older drivers...
Then try 96.43.01; if it still doesn't work, you'll have to bug nVidia as there's nothing we could do about this. You can get the old ebuilds from http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/?hideattic=0 if you want them. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 193511 ***
