nvidia-glx in an x86 chroot envoronment

[qwijibow]

i wanted to play a few games which dont work in zmd64, for example torcs which is hard masked.

i set Xorg-x11 to listen for clients on localhost:0 and ran "xhost +"
in my chroot envoronment "glxinfo" shows that the server is Nvidia and client is SGI MessaGL.
with Direct Rendering = No.

attempting to emerge nividia-kernel failes in the chroot envoronment, which doesnt suprise me, so i tired to "emerge nvidia-glx --nodeps" compile worked fine, however now glxinfo and glxgears segfaults.

in the booted kernel, 32bit binary's are enabled, and 32bit compatability is installed int he nvidia kernel module.

any ideas what went wrong ???

mayb it is because there is no /dev/nvidia ??? in the chroot envoronment. how can i fix this ?

[whig]

Install software so your 32 bit partition is fully bootable by itself. Try a few games in pure 32 mode. Then proceed to boot gentoo 64 and chroot the 32 system. Keeping the kernel and nvidia driver versions in sync is a good practice.

[qwijibow]

so in other words, i cannot run openGL applications in a 32bit chroot envoronment from a booted 64bit distro ?

the 32bit nvidia-glx in the x86 envoronment are of the same version as my 64bit nvidia-kernel.

games in pure 64bit work fine, as do games in pure 32bit.
but the games arnt important, so i dont want to create a seperate bootable partiton.

i think ill justhave to wait untill these porgrams are moved into amd6 unstable, rather than hard masked.

thanks anyway,

[herbie]

This is possible, and you're on the right tracks. You do need nvidia-glx emerged but not nvidia-kernel from within your chroot (use --nodeps here or add nvidia-kernel to /etc/portage/profile/package.provided). You also need the /dev/nvida* device files, the easiest way to get these is to bind mount /dev to within your chroot (mount -o bind /dev /path/to/32bit_chroot/dev). Opengl apps should then run at full speed within your chroot.

[incabolocabus]

in this case, the problem is glut. Heres what I did to make it work:

(I don't run a 32 bit chroot, btw - I compile on a 32 bit p4 install, quickpkg the apps I want, then unpack them on my amd64 and hack together whatever is needed to get them to run)

1) Since torcs won't build for some reason, build this in 32 bit, do a quickpkg, then install it into normal 64 bit area.
2) quickpkg 32 bit glut, then use "xunpak" [see below] and then do the following:

[whig]