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BTW: 99% of the time, this has nothing to do with devfs, udev, or the |
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kernel. When it says 'module failed to load' it's because the x is missing |
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the driver file. |
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i.e. |
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/usr/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so |
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/usr/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o |
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On 10/30/05, renna bud <rennabh@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Thursday 27 October 2005 22:12, Qian Qiao wrote: |
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> > On 10/27/05, Bob Young <BYoung@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > > -----Original Message----- |
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> > > From: Qian Qiao [mailto:qian.qiao@×××××.com] |
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> > > Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 2:20 PM |
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> > > To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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> > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] failed to load nvidia kernel module |
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> > > |
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> > > |
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> > > I doubt it's kernel related, I'm on a amd64 with 2.6.13-r3 here. And |
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> > > nvidia-kernel 6626-r4 runs fine. |
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> > > |
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> > > |
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> > > Seems it is: |
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> > > |
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> > > Thread from another user who experienced the problem: |
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> > > |
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> > > http://www.usenetlinux.com/archive/topic.php/t-495527.html |
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> > > |
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> > > The bug on it posted in Gentoo bugzilla: |
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> > > |
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> > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104369 |
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> > > |
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> > > Regards, |
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> > > Bob Young |
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> > |
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> > Indeed, the comments in the bug report from b.g.o could've explained |
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> > it. I had RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="yes". |
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> > |
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> > And from the comments, a few ways to possibly fix the problem: |
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> > a) set RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="yes", then run /sbin/NVmakedevices.sh once. |
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> > or b) add |
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> > <code> |
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> > if [ ! -e /dev/nvidia0 ]; then |
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> > /sbin/NVmakedevices.sh |
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> > fi |
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> > </code> |
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> > to your /etc/conf.d/local.start |
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> > |
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> > -- Joe |
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> > |
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> > -- |
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> > There are 3 kinds of people in the world: |
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> > Those who can count, and those who can't. |
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> > |
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> > Money can't buy everything. |
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> > Sometimes money can't even buy a gun... |
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> |
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> |
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> yes this was the very problem with me too. trying other versions of the |
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> driver |
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> didn't work, but running /sbin/NVmakedevices.sh solved the problem, and |
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> having added |
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> if [ ! -e /dev/nvidia0 ]; then |
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> /sbin/NVmakedevices.sh |
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> fi |
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> to my local.start now all is working fine. |
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