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On Wed, 05 Jul 2006, Philipp Riegger wrote: |
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> On Jul 5, 2006, at 12:32 PM, Urs Schuetz wrote: |
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> >>>Check whether you have /dev/nvidia[0..9] and /dev/nvidiactl. |
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> >>I don't have them. But the kernel module is loaded. I'll have a look |
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> >>at udev now. |
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> >They are essential, you want them. |
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> >From http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml : |
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> > Code Listing 3.2: Creating the nvidia device nodes |
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> > # /sbin/NVmakedevices.sh |
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> > If your /dev/nvidia devices are still missing every time you |
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> > reboot, then it is most likely because udev is not |
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> > automatically creating the proper device nodes. You can fix |
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> > this by re-running NVmakedevices.sh, and then editing |
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> > /etc/conf.d/rc as shown: |
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> > Code Listing 3.3: Editing /etc/conf.d/rc |
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> > RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="yes" |
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> > This will preserve your /dev/nvidia nodes even if you reboot. |
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> That solved my problem, thank you. I wonder why i never had problems |
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> with this before. |
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In my case it was because of a recent package upgrade (don't |
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remember what it was) followed by a etc-update, which changed the |
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line in /etc/conf.d/rc from RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="yes" to |
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RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="no", and therefore a reboot did no longer |
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recreate the /dev/nvidia* devices. So I lost the /dev/nvidia* |
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devices. This seems to be already solved with the newest nvidia |
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drivers acording to [1]. |
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Glad I could help. |
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Urs |
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[1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml |
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