-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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
Doing this should resolve the problem: (Note that # designates a root shell...) # [ -z /etc/portage/ ] && mkdir /etc/portage # echo media-video/nvidia-kernel >> /etc/portage/package.keywords # emerge nvidia-kernel # reboot Instead of rebooting in the last line, you could also quit X and do: # modprobe -r nvidia && modprobe nvidia - -- [Name ] :: [Matan I. Peled ] [Location ] :: [Israel ] [Public Key] :: [0xD6F42CA5 ] [Keyserver ] :: [keyserver.kjsl.com] encrypted/signed plain text preferred -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDTO+LA7Qvptb0LKURAtUEAJ9dvUKVZEub9plZb3Z01NqL3s7AMACgiiqT 9YtV7FWFFfXLhpReLL/Oo08= =OQuU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] mailing list
