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From: brettholcomb@×××××××××.net
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] udev and nvidia
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 11:56:15
Message-Id: 20051011115159.WJET12438.ibm63aec.bellsouth.net@mail.bellsouth.net
1 Reemerge nvidia - it's one of the modules that when you rebuild the kernel you have to redo them.
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4 > From: Alexander Puchmayr <alexander.puchmayr@×××××××.at>
5 > Date: 2005/10/11 Tue AM 03:29:52 EDT
6 > To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
7 > Subject: [gentoo-user] udev and nvidia
8 >
9 > Hi!
10 >
11 > After upgrading the system and hence switching to kernel 2.6.13 and udev, my
12 > nvidia device nodes are no longer available and I did not find any way to
13 > create them automatically by udev.
14 >
15 > According to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml, I have
16 > * nvidia listed in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6, and verified that it
17 > is loaded.
18 > * media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r4 is installed
19 > * sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.13-r1 is installed
20 >
21 > Additionally, I installed the coldplug package.
22 >
23 > grep nvidia /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules
24 > KERNEL=="nvidia*", NAME="%k", GROUP="video"
25 >
26 > Why is there no /dev/nvidia[0-7] and nvidiactl ?
27 > What did I forget?
28 >
29 > Thanks for suggestions and greetings
30 > Alex
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Re: [gentoo-user] udev and nvidia Alexander Puchmayr <alexander.puchmayr@×××××××.at>