Sabayon Won't Boot Live w/Xgl ::SOLVED::

[monarky]

AMD 64, Via chip MB, with Nvidia 7600gs AGP, on Sabayon No Good!? What's my problem? I'm expecting the Sabayon 3.0 DVD in the mail anyday and I was going to wipe some other distros and make it my main installation.

Been attempting to get this new GPU to install or boot Live with XGL! It will boot with Xgl on the RR4 Mini Live, but not the new Sabayon, nor the Full RR4 XGL! It will boot on the new Sabayon Mini Live w/o XGL! Very frustrating and this is not the only installs on a machine where this same scenario is happening. Have a friend who's top of the line Intel Gateway is pulling the same thing with an ATI card. Is this an Xgl issue? Or is Linux the problem? This card does install into my neighbors computer and run winblows.

Not your problem, but maybe it will help in a solution that it will not install the driver in SuSE either. Well it installs it, but when I run sax2 to activate it, it reverts to Vesa Frame Buffer there. Other distros boot, but still other won't boot at all with this AGP card in even when attempting a fresh install.

So any help or ideas Chris would be appreciated. I do know that this card was made by nVidia by taking the PCIe slot card and putting it on an AGP slot card base to fill a gap in the market and I've already attempted to mess with some settings with nvAGP in options. So still confused and perplexed on this one!

[cvill64]

Try and boot with: opengl=nvidia : for yourself, and your friend boot with : opengl=ati : at the boot prompt when booting up the live cd along with your other boot commands you choose (eg gentoo xgl opengl=nvidia) and see if that helps

[monarky]

Thanks Chris,

I will try that with my friends and mine with Live boot! But what I did was put my other Nvidia card back in and installed the older Nvidia driver from RR4 disk that worked (and is the only Linux Live Disk that runs on any machine).

With everything working I shut down and placed the new card back in and booted back up into the installed Sabayon. Works fine! It tells me I still have my Nvidia 6600GT card though it's really my new Nvidia 7600GS AGP I have in it. Eventually Nvidia may update the Linux driver to support this card properly, but it really pisses me off, when you spend money for something you can't fully use on your system of chose because of such very poor support.

The Nvidia box has all this crap about "Built for Microsoft Vista" and "Designed for Microsoft Windows XP"! Freaking bastards! I can't wait till the Linux community totally divorces these crappy proprietary drivers and gets Xgl, Compiz, Aiglx and Glucose working so we can toss their sorry ass drivers out of our systems! Apple's done it, no reason we can't!

Thanks!

[monarky]

Well it worked on two computers that wouldn't boot Xgl before, but booted standard. Tried the opengl=ati on friends computer like you said, and it worked there too, when it wouldn't run either way without it. So I installed it for him!

Thanks Chris,
Tony

[cvill64]

Wondeful, I'll append solved to the topic