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maillog: 24/07/2004-18:27:21(+0200): Martin Schlemmer types |
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> On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 05:31, Georgi Georgiev wrote: |
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> > maillog: 22/07/2004-21:06:17(+0200): Martin Schlemmer types |
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> > > On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 22:40, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> > > > On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 06:34, Travis Tilley wrote: |
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> > > > > 1) udev is either ready or it isnt. the fact that you need to use a device |
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> > > > > tarball for entries udev doesnt support shows me that it isnt ready. what's |
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> > > > > the point of using a device management system if you're going to just dump a |
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> > > > > bunch of extra dev entries in there anyway? if udev were ready, this wouldnt |
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> > > > > be necessary. |
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> > > > |
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> > > > Most of those drivers are not sysfs-aware and simply have not been |
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> > > > updated by the various authors. Most of them are non-kernel modules, |
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> > > > such as VMware. |
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> > > > |
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> > > |
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> > > It really is not that difficult to patch the specific driver for |
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> > > sysfs - I did it for both nVidia and svgalib ... |
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> > |
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> > You did?! Where is the patch? I have nvidia-kernel-1.0.6106, and it is still |
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> > not sysfs aware. |
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> It has been in the last 3 versions I think: |
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> --- |
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> # udevinfo -d | grep nvidia |
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> P: /class/nvidia/nvidia0 |
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> N: nvidia0 |
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> P: /class/nvidia/nvidiactl |
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> N: nvidiactl |
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> --- |
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> Are you sure you have kernel, etc configure correctly? Btw, |
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> udev system do not support autoloading of modules, so you |
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> have to add it to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6, but |
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> then the device nodes should be created automatically ... |
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No such thing here. The nvidia module is loaded (I even reloaded it), the |
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version is 1.0.6106, and there is nothing related to nvidia in /sys/class/. |
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I am using the KBUILD_OUTPUT feature of my kernel. Could it be related? Should |
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I take this to bugs.gentoo.org? |
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