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. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list