The X Server Configuration HOWTO<\/a><\/p>\nBuild the kernel, and install it. Edit the VIDEO_CARDS variable in your make.conf to say only nouveau, nothing more, nothing less.<\/p>\n
Unmask the following packages: media-libs\/mesa, x11-libs\/pixman, x11-drivers\/xf86-video-nouveau, x11-base\/xorg-drivers, x11-base\/xorg-server, x11-libs\/libdrm, x11-drivers\/xf86-input-evdev, x11-drivers\/xf86-input-keyboard, x11-drivers\/xf86-input-mouse<\/p>\n
Install the above packages, make sure you’ve done a emerge -C nvidia-drivers nvidia-settings prior to the merge.<\/p>\n
Reboot the system, it should all work out of the box, compiz will fail with a segmentation fault, look into your logs. You’ll see something like the following:<\/p>\n
\r\n2011-05-11T17:22:24.760922+05:08 halcyon-82 kernel: [ 2026.893377] grsec: denied\r\n resource overstep by requesting 4096 for RLIMIT_CORE against limit 0 for \/usr\/b\r\nin\/compiz[compiz:20146] uid\/euid:1000\/1000 gid\/egid:1000\/1000, parent \/bin\/bash[\r\nbash:11847] uid\/euid:1000\/1000 gid\/egid:1000\/1000\r\n\r\n2011-05-11T17:26:07.848848+05:08 halcyon-82 kernel: [ 2249.981362] compiz[20378]\r\n: segfault at ffffffffffffffff ip 00000284c5f39fa1 sp 0000039c50e0ee00 error 6 i\r\nn nouveau_dri.so[284c5cc3000+38b000]\r\n<\/pre>\nSimply disable pax for compiz and emerald, do the following as root:
\n[sourcecode lang=bash]
\n# paxctl -zm \/usr\/bin\/compiz
\n# paxctl -zm \/usr\/bin\/emerald
\n[\/sourcecode]<\/p>\n
Now, start compiz as usual and your all set.
\nOn a side note, flash player will show a similar issue too, so disable PaX for that too.<\/p>\n
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