Am Dienstag, 11. Oktober 2005 09:58 schrieb Drew Tomlinson:
> Alexander Puchmayr wrote:
> >Hi!
> >
> >After upgrading the system and hence switching to kernel 2.6.13 and
> > udev, my nvidia device nodes are no longer available and I did not find
> > any way to create them automatically by udev.
> >
> >According to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml, I have
> >* nvidia listed in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6, and verified that
> > it is loaded.
> >* media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r4 is installed
> >* sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.13-r1 is installed
> >
> >Additionally, I installed the coldplug package.
> >
> >grep nvidia /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules
> >KERNEL=="nvidia*", NAME="%k", GROUP="video"
> >
> >Why is there no /dev/nvidia[0-7] and nvidiactl ?
> >What did I forget?
> >
> >Thanks for suggestions and greetings
> > Alex
>
> I recall reading somewhere that because of the binary nature of the
> nvidia driver, you have to re-emerge it after building a new kernel.
> Seems like it was on a gentoo.org page about the nvidia driver.
>
I did this after installing the new kernel, and I re-emerged it again just
to make sure, but it didn't help. Still, I don't have /dev/nvidia* created
by udev, I have to create them by myself.
Greetings,
Alex
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