Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system initialization scripts UDEV message
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 14:57:01
Message-Id: 20051027154543.7e2e3ea6@hactar.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system initialization scripts UDEV message by "Budd
1 On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 09:43:27 -0400, Budd, Tracy wrote:
2
3 > I checked the Xorg.0.log. The only error message there was
4 > "Failed to initialize NVIDIA kernel module."
5 > I forgot to check dmesg.
6 > I am wondering if I need to use mknod. Eventhough the nvidia module
7 > seems to
8 > load (lsmod confirms this), I cannot find any entries in /dev for
9 > nvidia.
10
11 You need these lines in /etc/modules.d/nvidia
12
13 # Nvidia drivers support
14 alias char-major-195 nvidia
15 alias /dev/nvidiactl char-major-195
16
17 Then run modules-update
18
19
20 --
21 Neil Bothwick
22
23 Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.

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