Having problems with getting Nvidia Glx to work

[TheGreatPhilHansen]

I can load X just fine without glx, but when I put glx in there, X freezes at the Nvidia splash screen

Im running a 1 GHZ duron with Gentoo 1.4rc1 and all the latest non-masked stuff

Also i have a Geforce 2 MX 400 pci

Plz help.

[frogold]

If you emerged both
nvidia-glx
and
nvidia-kernel
and have edited your XF86Config file to change nv to nvidia and have uncommented load glx

do a
opengl-update nvidia

[TheGreatPhilHansen]

Ok, I've had some success diagnosing the problem.

It's not just with the glx module
These are the two instances when I can see this problem happening.

A. I only load the nvidia driver but not glx, X loads fine but when i try to ctl-alt-F*whatever* to another terminal the screen gets all garbled and freezes.

B. I load both nvidia driver and glx, when X gets to the Nvidia splash screen the screen is all garbled and freezes.

this is my XF86config

Code:

Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double buffer extension
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension
EndSubSection
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
# Load "glx"
EndSection

Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "Keyboard"
Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "NEC"
HorizSync 31-70
VertRefresh 55-120
EndSection


Section "Device"
Identifier "NV"
Driver "nvidia"
#VideoRam 65536
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "NV"
Monitor "NEC"
DefaultDepth 24

Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Simple Layout"
Screen "Screen 1"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

and these are the two errors i get in my XFree86.log.0:


(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load glX
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to obtain a shared memory identifier.


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