Re: [gentoo-user] failed to load nvidia kernel module

[Jose Maria Alvarez Fernandez]

Strange. I tried 7174 and down without success. Every time i had to use 
the script showed. I have to use 7667 or above with 2.6.13 in order to 
have nodes working correctly. It may also depend on xorg version.

Greetings!

Qian Qiao wrote:
> On 10/27/05, Jose Maria Alvarez Fernandez <jmalvarezf@×××××.com> wrote:
>
>>It's kernel related. 2.6.13 doesn't create the nvidia devicess correctly
>>with udev, which with 2.6.13 is default. You can try to put this in the
>>local.start if you want to use this nvidia kernel versions:
>>
>>for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7; do
>>       node="/dev/nvidia$i"
>>       rm -f $node
>>       mknod $node c 195 $i || echo "mknod \"$node\""
>>       chmod 0660 $node || echo "chmod \"$node\""
>>       chown :video $node || echo "chown \"$node\""
>>done
>>node="/dev/nvidiactl"
>>rm -f $node
>>mknod $node c 195 255 || echo "mknod \"$node\""
>>chmod 0666 $node || echo "chmod \"$node\""
>>chown :video $node || echo "chown \"$node\""
>>
>>Hope it helps!
>
>
> I doubt it's kernel related, I'm on a amd64 with 2.6.13-r3 here. And
> nvidia-kernel 6626-r4 runs fine.
>
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