3.4x86 X loads to a blank screen with NVIDIA GeForce 440Go

[watson540]

your problem sounds very unique. I too had major problems with the nvidia driver that came with 3.4. I think a lot of people have. I was having major lock up issues. also couldn't kill x or logout without a lockup. I installed versio. 9755 of nvidia drivers. those were the last stable ones that I knew worked. I would try that version if I were you. and if your card is even supported by that version

[archwndas]

Regarding the robustness and stability of Nvidia drivers, I am also disappointed as well. Not only those for Linux but for FreeBSD as well. I do not know why they have chosen "closed source" drivers. If their drivers were open-source then the most of those annoying bugs would have been fixed long ago. Even if everything seems to work fine, guys trust me it is not. Take for example any OpenGL example coming with QT libraries or even glxgears. Download and install valgrind (emerge valgrind) and then type:

valgrind -v glxgears.

you will see many many error related with the OpenGL implementation of NVIDIA.
Do the same with any qt3 or qt4 example which demonstrates how to embed opengl in QT. You will see errors there which do not appear when you load X with the "nv" driver.

Regarding ATI drivers, I do not know. I have no idea. But now it is ought by AMD and I hope that soon AMD will do what it promised. To embed the Graphics Card in the CPU itself or something similar. Then I hope they will take care of deploy high performance stable drivers for Linux, FreeBSD e.t.c. AMD is obsessed about performance and stability while NVIDIA so and so ...

[archwndas]

My card is GeForce4 MX 420Go and it is supported only from 96XX and previous versions of the Nvidia Driver. As for the stability you claim see my previous post. No driver of NVIDIA is bug free.

[nickrout]

No software is bug free so nVidia is no different from that perspective.

For my experience nVidia has done well by me. Yes we'd all like it to be open sourced, then you could fix all those bugs

You say your card is supposed to be supported in 96xx series drivers, but doesn't - so what happens when you use them? You actually cannot expect much help without a proper bug report.

[archwndas]

I get a blank screen when X loads.

[nickrout]

and what does /var/log/Xorg.0.log say?

[archwndas]

Well, I didn't save that ...
But why do you guys answer to my previous question regarding Beryl and legacy drivers. Will that work? What do I have to do to install Beryl in that laptop instead of Compiz?

[nickrout]

Will it work? Try it and see!

try

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emerge beryl

[archwndas]

Guys I have already:

emerge -f beryl

and I am waiting for an expert to tell me if it will work. I remember in the past I had tried to install beryl in Gentoo, but I didn't succeeded. Unfortunately emerge is not the best way to install that sort of things. Maybe in the layman port tree of Sabayon there is a way to do it just as simple as issuing one and only command. I have not experience though with Sabayon's layman stuff. That is why I am waiting for a Sabayon developer guy to let me know, how do they install Beryl.

[nickrout]

emerge -f beryl only downloads the files, if you want to compile and install beryl you have to run it without -f

I see on my 3.4 system it wants to downgrade a couple of packages.

Try it and see for heaven's sake.