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Alexander Puchmayr wrote: |
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>Hi! |
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>After upgrading the system and hence switching to kernel 2.6.13 and udev, my |
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>nvidia device nodes are no longer available and I did not find any way to |
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>create them automatically by udev. |
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>According to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml, I have |
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>* nvidia listed in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6, and verified that it |
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>is loaded. |
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>* media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r4 is installed |
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>* sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.13-r1 is installed |
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>Additionally, I installed the coldplug package. |
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>grep nvidia /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules |
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>KERNEL=="nvidia*", NAME="%k", GROUP="video" |
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>Why is there no /dev/nvidia[0-7] and nvidiactl ? |
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>What did I forget? |
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>Thanks for suggestions and greetings |
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> Alex |
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I recall reading somewhere that because of the binary nature of the |
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nvidia driver, you have to re-emerge it after building a new kernel. |
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Seems like it was on a gentoo.org page about the nvidia driver. |
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HTH, |
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Drew |
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