nvidia module causing Xorg to lock up

[uncledelphi]

Greetings. I am having an annoying problem, and haven't found the soultion online. When I installed the nvidia video driver per the instructions in the "Gentoo Linux nVidia Guide." Now when Xorg tries to start up, it goes to a totally black screen and locks up. I mean hard lock, caps- and num-lock don't even work. I have to do a hard reset. It works when I change Driver from nvidia to nv, but then video files look horrible when using xine.

All software on my system was compiled from new sources, no older than this past Sunday (1-31-05). Everything was compiled via portage. Kernel is 2.6.10-gentoo-r6. 4k stacks are disabled. The motherboard is ASUS A7N266-VM.

Below is a snippet from my xorg.conf file. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

[adsmith]

If you are using udev, are you loading the nvidia module at boot time? (you should be!)

[uncledelphi]

Yes, the module is loaded at boot time. It says that it is loaded ok.

[jmk]

In your x config file is your pointer using the device /dev/mouse?
If it is try to set it to /dev/input/mice instead, that solved my problems.
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[PV-Patrick]

Anyone else have any ideas about this? I am having the same problem, I can't use the nvidia driver as it just completly locks up my machine. I am trying to get past 1024x768 resolution in 24 Depth but can't seem to do so, any tips?

[yoyo]

There are some problems with latest nvidia-kernel (71??) and some video cards (I've got pb with my geforce4 mx440).
So try downgrading nvidia-kernel AND nvidia-glx to stable version.
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