On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 22:05:58 +0000
Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Collins Richey wrote:
> > 3) In the article published at www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php,
> > the author claims that external action must be taken to make udev
> > work with nvidia's drivers. That is not the case for me. I have
> > nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx active, and I did not need to tweak
> > udev at all.
>
> Interesting.
> Are you autoloading the 'nvidia' module on bootup or anything? Or is
> it still unloaded at the point where you run 'startx' or equivalent?
>
> As I explained on the page, X tries to load the module if it isn't
> already loaded. I guess X loads modules slightly differently, as (for
> me, and another test subject) it just refuses to start without the
> /dev/nvidia* nodes already in place (or the module completely loaded).
>
Were you using 2.6 and udev-017?
I did absolutely nothing to get this to work other than emerging the
nvidia ebuilds and appropriately coding XF86Config. Here's the extract
from syslog
Feb 15 14:58:32 richpc1 sudo: collins : TTY=vc/1 ; PWD=/home/collins ;
USER=roo t ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/wdm
[ the window manager starts X after I enter login data ]
Feb 15 14:58:33 richpc1 kernel: nvidia: no version magic, tainting
kernel. Feb 15 14:58:33 richpc1 kernel: nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA'
taints kernel. Feb 15 14:58:33 richpc1 kernel: 0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA
Linux x86 NVIDIA Kerne l Module 1.0-5336 Wed Jan 14 18:29:26 PST 2004
[ nvidia is being loaded ]
Feb 15 14:58:36 richpc1 kernel: atkbd.c: Unknown key released
(translated set 2, code 0x7a on isa0060/serio0).
Feb 15 14:58:36 richpc1 kernel: atkbd.c: This is an XFree86 bug. It
shouldn't ac cess hardware directly.
[ the usual 2.6 garbage at startx time ]
I have nothing in autoload for this (or any other module), nor have I
altered anything in /etc/udev. With X running, I get the following; I
haven't checked before starting the window manager.
ls /dev/nv*
/dev/nvidia0 /dev/nvidia2 /dev/nvidia4 /dev/nvidia6 /dev/nvidiactl
/dev/nvidia1 /dev/nvidia3 /dev/nvidia5 /dev/nvidia7
HTH,
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Collins Richey - Denver area
gentoo 2004 2.6.3_r2 nptl udev
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