[copin]

currently I am confused!

I successfully installed steam onto my gentoo linux box, but when I click on portal, or any of the other games on the orange box I get the "video driver outdated" message, then nothing. doing a ps -ef shows that it's running...

confusing.
any help / suggestions would be helpful.

[stevencomerthornley]

my games just initialize then close, also gentoo

[stevencomerthornley]

still no answers?

what, are linux folks too busy playing TCE?

[coopstah13]

you probably haven't properly install the graphics drivers for your graphics card or aren't using them.

Post output of

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep Driver
lspci | grep VGA
lsmod | grep nv

[stevencomerthornley]

localhost steven # cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep Driver
Driver "synaptics"
Driver "kbd"
Driver "wacom"
Driver "wacom"
Driver "wacom"
Driver "mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Driver "nvidia" # do not remove vesa
localhost steven # lspci | grep VGA
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G71 [GeForce 7900 GS] (rev a1)
localhost steven # lsmod | grep nv
nvidia 8896164 34
i2c_core 28160 2 nvidia,i2c_nforce2

[coopstah13]

glxinfo | grep direct

post the output of this, or if your x server crashes, then you have a problem with the installation of the driver, what version of the driver are you using from nvidia?

[stevencomerthornley]

it's the latest nvidia driver, my X doesn't crash

I'm at work or I'd have posted the command

rendering is on

compiz fusion is working, with the rotating cube and other eye candy

Steam games just crash.

with or without friends