051107 Peper wrote:
>> Has anyone got Nvidia to work with Kernel 2.6.14 ?
>> I had it working with 2.6.12 , but got an error with 2.6.14 :
>> (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialise NVIDIA kernel module!
>> (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** aborting ***
>> (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have usable configuration
> Have you tried running /sbin/NVmakedevices.sh before starting xorg?
No, I hadn't, but that would solve the problem.
The solution was to be found in the Forum (as often)
& it seems that the problem arises from a combination of kernel + NV version.
Some people have solved it by emerging the ~86 NV version 7676 ,
others -- incl me -- by adding some lines to /etc/conf.d/local.start , ie
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\""
This is simpler than NVmakedevices.sh , which also could disappear:
in fact, someone claimed not to have it with some version combination.
Thanks to everyone who offered advice.
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