On Thursday, March 27, 2014 16:15:21 Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 27.03.2014 16:02, schrieb Felix Yan: > > Hi all, > > > > The nvidia-modprobe binary was provided in the "nvidia" / "nvidia-lts" > > packages, but this doesn't work well because the two packages should not > > be > > prevented from installing together. > > > > To fix this, I've pulled the two packages from [testing], and will upload > > a > > new nvidia-utils package containing the binary to [testing]. FS#39203 and > > FS#39636 will be closed if the new package fixed everything. (A setuid > > binary is not good, but no trivial workaround was found) > > Seriously, that is a crappy solution. If nvidia would properly register > its devices with linux, these devices could be created dynamically. It's > really up to nvidia to fix their kernel module. > > (By the way, the /dev/nvidia* devices do not even generate proper > uevents and thus cannot be caught by udev or systemd. I wish they would > stop relying on a closed-source kernel driver with debatable quality.)
Yeah, I totally agree with you. I played a lot with udev but only produced a hacky (and certainly wrong except "works") udev rule. I don't think that one better than the upstream-provided crappy binary. I've also asked upstream for help, but still didn't get a reply. Regards, Felix Yan
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