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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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> 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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# 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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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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Martin Schlemmer |
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Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer |
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Cape Town, South Africa |
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