Hey, thanks, I fixed the problems by making sure /home and /tmp were mounted properly in the chroot and also reinstalling the nvidia drivers package.
The only problem left is that nvclock and nvidia-settings both segfault.
>From: Levi Bard <levi@bard.sytes.net>
>To: "Carraher, Daniel" <Daniel.Carraher@umassmed.edu>
>CC: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: slight OT: running 32-bit apps in chroot, nvidia drivers
>Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 08:50:01 -0400
>
>
>>I can go to the chroot dir /var/chroot/sid-ia32 and do a chroot .
>>I can then start kdm from within the chroot and run and run the
>>whole Xserver + DE + apps in 32bit from within the chroot. That
>>works fine.
>>
>>But when I start the Xserver (through kdm) outside the chroot in
>>pure64 and go 'inside' the chroot I can't get individual apps to
>>connect to my pure64 Xserver.
>>I've edited the kdm files to try to let localhost access both
>>through unix sockets and tcp/ip, but it's just not working. Is
>>there something special I have to do to get the chroot 32bit apps
>>to connect to the pure64 xserver? is it possible? Maybe I just
>>haven't found the right settings?
>>
>>
>If you're chrooting, you need to mount the "real" tmp and dev inside
>your chroot (mount --bind /tmp /var/chroot/sid-ia32/tmp). I found I
>also had to copy my ~/.Xauthority into my chroot home dir as well.
>
>>NVIDIA drivers:
>>nvidia-settings from the amd64 debs posted to this mailing list
>>crashes for me outside the chroot. But, the nvidia-settings that
>>came with the 32bit only drivers works fine inside the chroot.
>>Also I've noticed that I can run opengl apps (quake3, enemy
>>territory) from the chroot dirs without actually going 'into' the
>>chroot. But I get large texture rendering artifacts (sometimes I
>>get perfect looking scenes and sometimes they're messed up).
>>I can also run them from 'inside' the chroot when the xserver is
>>also running from inside the chroot. Then I get smaller rendering
>>artifacts, but only in warcraft3 through winex's cedega, not quake3
>>or et.
>>However when I boot into a fully i386 debian which is an exact copy
>>of the chroot, I don't get the slight artifacts. Strange huh?
>>By the way, both quake3 and enemy territory refuse to install on my
>>pure64 distro from outside or inside the chroot. However they run
>>fine inside the chroot and with only the texture problems outside
>>the chroot. strange.
>>
>>
>Hmm, I haven't experienced this. I haven't gotten any artifacts
>with anything, including quake3, et, neverwinter nights, ... What
>do your /usr/lib/libGL.so* look like in your 64bit and 32bit
>chroots?
>
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