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by **happyuser** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 3:23

wolfden wrote:in konsole:
su
enter your password

emerge =nvidia-drivers-1.0.7185

echo">=nvidia-drivers-1.0.8700" >> /etc/portage/package.mask

/etc/init.d/xdm restart

Thank you for your reply and your help wolfden :wink:

I followed your instructions 1 x 1.
2)emerge =nvidia-drivers-1.0.7185 (Konsole came back with "blocking packages" I put in emerge -C nvidia-legacy-drivers) Then the emerge =nvidia-drivers-1.0.7185 installed.

I don't think all is well - when I emerge -s nvidia the konsole gets stuck.

Code: Select all: emerge -s nvidia Searching... \

Desktop acceleration still shows no acceleration.

I wish Sabayon had set-up 3.4a like 3.3 on installing drivers on OS installation

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If there is anything else you need just let me know. Thanks again.

by **happyuser** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 3:48

After reboot konsole came back with:

Code: Select all: emerge -s nvidia Searching... [ Results for search key : nvidia ] [ Applications found : 4 ] * media-gfx/nvidia-cg-toolkit Latest version available: 1.5.0 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of files: 12,969 kB Homepage: http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cg_toolkit.html Description: nvidia's c graphics compiler toolkit License: NVIDIA * media-video/nvidia-settings Latest version available: 1.0.20070621 Latest version installed: 1.0.20070302 Size of files: 1,225 kB Homepage: http://www.nvidia.com/ Description: NVIDIA Linux X11 Settings Utility License: GPL-2 * x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers Latest version available: 100.14.11-r11 Latest version installed: 1.0.7185 Size of files: 30,391 kB Homepage: http://www.nvidia.com/ Description: NVIDIA X11 driver and GLX libraries License: NVIDIA * x11-drivers/nvidia-legacy-drivers Latest version available: 1.0.7184-r91 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of files: 14,023 kB Homepage: http://www.nvidia.com/ Description: NVIDIA X11 driver and GLX libraries for older NVIDIA cards License: NVIDIA

Desktop acceleration still no change

by **happyuser** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 0:58

Solved

My card GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP8X required the 1.0-9639 http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html :

What is a Legacy GPU?

The following GPUs are no longer supported in the regular NVIDIA Unified UNIX Graphics Driver. Instead, these GPUs will continue to be supported through special "Legacy GPU" drivers that will be updated periodically to add support for new versions of Linux system components (e.g., new Linux kernels, new versions of the X server, etc).

There are presently two Legacy GPU driver series. The 1.0-71xx series supports TNT, TNT2, GeForce 256, and GeForce2 GPUs. The 1.0-96xx series supports GeForce2 MX, GeForce3, GeForce4, and Quadro4 GPUs. For a complete list of the GPUs supported in each of the Legacy GPU driver series, see the lists below.

What I did: (emerge --sync && layman -S should be done first)

Removed the wrong driver

Code: Select all: emerge -C =nvidia-drivers-1.0.7185

Installed the correct driver

Code: Select all: emerge =nvidia-drivers-1.0-9639

Compiz and Acceleration manager are fully functional on reboot :lol:

I picked Aiglx from the new choices acceleration manager offered me. Then reboot and Compiz Config Settings is now on my desktop.

New:

Code: Select all: emerge -s nvidia Searching... [ Results for search key : nvidia ] [ Applications found : 4 ] * media-gfx/nvidia-cg-toolkit Latest version available: 1.5.0 Latest version installed: 1.5.0 Size of files: 12,969 kB Homepage: http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cg_toolkit.html Description: nvidia's c graphics compiler toolkit License: NVIDIA * media-video/nvidia-settings Latest version available: 1.0.20070621 Latest version installed: 1.0.20070302 Size of files: 1,225 kB Homepage: http://www.nvidia.com/ Description: NVIDIA Linux X11 Settings Utility License: GPL-2 * x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers Latest version available: 100.14.11-r11 Latest version installed: 1.0.9639 Size of files: 30,391 kB Homepage: http://www.nvidia.com/ Description: NVIDIA X11 driver and GLX libraries License: NVIDIA * x11-drivers/nvidia-legacy-drivers Latest version available: 1.0.7184-r91 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of files: 14,023 kB Homepage: http://www.nvidia.com/ Description: NVIDIA X11 driver and GLX libraries for older NVIDIA cards License: NVIDIA

Code: Select all: glxinfo | grep direct direct rendering: Yes

Code: Select all: cat /var/log/Xorg.*.log | grep "(EE)" (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.

Code: Select all: cat /etc/sabayon-release Sabayon Linux x86 3.4

Code: Select all: lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C693A/694x [Apollo PRO133x] (rev c4) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo MVP3/Pro133x AGP] 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40) 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 1a) 00:07.4 SMBus: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40) 00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 08) 00:0a.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! Game Port (rev 08) 00:0b.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 02) 00:0b.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 02) 00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV28 [GeForce4 Ti 4200 AGP 8x] (rev a1)

Code: Select all: glxgears 5874 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1174.776 FPS 6436 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1287.078 FPS 6470 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1293.999 FPS 6369 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1273.696 FPS 6242 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1248.178 FPS

This is with: compiz-in it's full glory, firefox w/7tabs open, root konsole and Amarok playing .977 the hits :lol:

Xorg file:

Thank you wolfden for steering me in the right direction.
I hope this helps anyone with my same problem.

:idea:

Feel free to edit this and make it easier for the next person.

Happyuser

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