Getting the NVidia GeForce2 MX440 video card to work successfully with GLX on Gentoo Linux wasn’t as difficult as first seemed, however there were a few hurdles I ran into.

You will need the kernel and X packages emerged (you can grab the settings package as well if you like). The glx package in Gentoo requires the kernel package, so all you need to do is emerge the nvidia-glx package.

This resulted in the following packages being emerged from portage:

• media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r4
• media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.6629-r6

I then edited my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and simply changed the driver to nvidia (from nv), however this caused major issues when X next restarted.

I continued playing with various settings for a while and eventually found running startx would work but xdm would fail miserably when starting (causing screen flashing and putting the machine in a state that only a hard reset would fix!!)

My full XOrg.conf file.

The important points with configuration are:

• Turn off dri support
• Keep your initial configuration simple (my struggle with TV out will come soon!)