[gentoo-amd64] OpenGL trouble (?)

[Thierry de Coulon]

Hello,

So I've set up my opteron box and now (almost( everything is working, I've 
transfered my mail directory (this usually means I'm ready to start working 
with the machine :)

I had some problems installing the nvidia driver - I have a 6600GT card and 
the driver that emerge would installed was apparently too old.
So I backed up everything at tried the "officiel" Nvidia driver, and it 
works... mostly

I've a series of games that run with OpenGL. AFAIK all are 32 bit only. The 
following work perfectly:

- prBoom (Doom II)
- Unreal
- Unreal Tournament
- Quake
- Quake 2
- Quake 3
- Return to casle Wolfenstein
- Creatures 3
- X-Plane 8.32

However, I still have problems with these:
- Soldier of fortune: I can play but it will crash if I try to save, or at the 
end of the level
- Quake 4 (crashes at the beginning, when you go to the entrence door. This is 
an automatic way point where the game autosaves).
- Doom 3 (crashes after the opening animation)


All these crashes seem to be directly related to an I/O access, or possibly a 
sound access?. It totaly freezes the computer (hard reset necessary). It's 
not the most important problem but I still wonder where it comes from: nvidia 
driver? controler driver? amd64bit problem?

The problem is NOT Gentoo specific and can be reproduced on the same machine 
when installing a 32bit distribution. Happens with SuSE 64 as well. Why it 
occurs in SOF but not in RTCW I don't understand.

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