With xorg-x11 7 now marked stable on Gentoo, I’m decided to try something a litle different with my upgrade… I ditched the nvidia binary kernel driver. Instead, I’m using the native open source nv driver that comes with xorg-x11. So far, so good. I can play my movies just fine and that’s all I was worried about.
I suppose if I use the native X11 drivers, then I can file bug reports on it if I hit any snags, and help to improve the little sucker. I don’t think I’ll be able to play Enemy Territory anytime soon, though.
Actually … maybe I can do a little more. I’ll have to read up on it, but apparently there’s some project called UtahGLX that I saw mentioned on the DRI wiki. Their webpage says that GLX works with the Geforce cards. I should try it out.
TwinView/Xinerama is not offered by xf86-video-nv. 🙁
I think utah glx only works on xfree 3.3 or so. You might want to look into nouveau.freedesktop.org although it’s in the very early stages.