Me again ;) I just ran 'startx' on my machine for the first time in a dog's age and had to switch the rendering engine to XRender from OpenGL to get a usable desktop (couldn't see the desktop. was a bunch of black squares). I'm not sure what changed, and the online wiki/forum pages I just spent two hours reading were stale and of little help. Anyone see anything stupid herein: -- make.conf -- VIDEO_CARDS="nouveau"
-- eselect -- # for i in mesa opengl qtgraphicssystem > do > eselect $i list > done i915 (Intel 915, 945) i965 (Intel 965, G/Q3x, G/Q4x) r300 (Radeon R300-R500) r600 (Radeon R600-R700, Evergreen, Northern Islands) sw (Software renderer) [1] classic [2] gallium * Available OpenGL implementations: [1] xorg-x11 * Available Qt Graphics Systems: [1] native [2] opengl (experimental) [3] raster (default) * -- eix -- kde-meta - 4.8.2(4){tbz2}(02:36:00 PM 04/05/2012)(nls semantic-desktop -accessibility -aqua -sdk) kwin - 4.8.2(4){tbz2}(05:36:26 AM 04/05/2012)(opengl -aqua -debug -gles -xinerama) qt-opengl - 4.8.1(4){tbz2}(04:54:00 AM 03/30/2012)(exceptions qt3support -aqua -c++0x -debug -egl -pch -qpa) qt-gui - 4.8.1-r1(4){tbz2}(03:43:46 AM 04/05/2012)(accessibility dbus exceptions gif glib mng qt3support tiff xv -aqua -c++0x -cups -debug -egl -gtkstyle -nas -nis -pch -qpa -trace -xinerama) mesa - 8.0.2{tbz2}(04:52:19 AM 03/30/2012)(classic egl gallium llvm nptl shared-glapi video_cards_nouveau -bindist -d3d -debug -g3dvl -gbm -gles1 -gles2 -kernel_FreeBSD -openvg -osmesa -pax_kernel -pic -selinux -shared-dricore -vdpau -video_cards_i915 -video_cards_i965 -video_cards_intel -video_cards_r100 -video_cards_r200 -video_cards_r300 -video_cards_r600 -video_cards_radeon -video_cards_vmware -wayland -xa -xvmc) xf86-video-nouveau - 0.0.16_pre20120322{tbz2}(03:30:39 AM 03/23/2012) xorg-server - 1.12.0-r1{tbz2}(03:32:48 AM 03/21/2012)(ipv6 nptl udev xorg -dmx -doc -kdrive -minimal -selinux -static-libs -tslib -xnest -xvfb) ~ # uname -r 3.3.2-gentoo ~ # egrep -i 'nouveau|drm' /boot/config-3.3.2-gentoo CONFIG_DRM=y CONFIG_DRM_KMS_HELPER=y CONFIG_DRM_TTM=y # CONFIG_DRM_TDFX is not set # CONFIG_DRM_R128 is not set # CONFIG_DRM_RADEON is not set # CONFIG_DRM_MGA is not set # CONFIG_DRM_VIA is not set # CONFIG_DRM_SAVAGE is not set # CONFIG_DRM_VMWGFX is not set # CONFIG_DRM_GMA500 is not set CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU=y # CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU_BACKLIGHT is not set # CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU_DEBUG is not set # CONFIG_DRM_I2C_CH7006 is not set # CONFIG_DRM_I2C_SIL164 is not set ~ # lspci -v|grep -i nvid 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G92 [GeForce 9800 GT] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) At this point, I don't care if it's OpenGL or OpenGL ES (kwin_gles) that we get working.. I just want to use something 'better' than XRender again (it lags badly for me) Thanks! -- Douglas J Hunley (doug.hun...@gmail.com) Twitter: @hunleyd Web: douglasjhunley.com G+: http://goo.gl/sajR3