From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dr3hT-0006c0-2O for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2005 01:00:11 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j690wn9t005894; Sat, 9 Jul 2005 00:58:49 GMT Received: from ctb-mesg1.saix.net (ctb-mesg1.saix.net [196.25.240.81]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j690usOI018189 for ; Sat, 9 Jul 2005 00:56:54 GMT Received: from gateway.lan (wblv-146-200-204.telkomadsl.co.za [165.146.200.204]) by ctb-mesg1.saix.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45A975499 for ; Sat, 9 Jul 2005 02:57:06 +0200 (SAST) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gateway.lan (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78CE53A2482 for ; Sat, 9 Jul 2005 03:06:23 +0200 (SAST) Received: from gateway.lan ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gateway.lan [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 27211-09 for ; Sat, 9 Jul 2005 03:06:19 +0200 (SAST) Received: from lycan.lan (lycan.lan [192.168.0.5]) (using SSLv3 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by gateway.lan (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE5183A247B for ; Sat, 9 Jul 2005 03:06:19 +0200 (SAST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] devfs is dead, let's move on From: Martin Schlemmer To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200507090244.38765.m.debruijne@hccnet.nl> References: <20050706224651.GA19853@kroah.com> <20050708222544.GB22141@kroah.com> <1120865758.6495.4.camel@lycan.lan> <200507090244.38765.m.debruijne@hccnet.nl> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-HAPKiAYFrZPmyHZhC8Ex" Organization: Gentoo Foundation Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 02:58:46 +0200 Message-Id: <1120870726.6495.12.camel@lycan.lan> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1.1 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at nosferatu.za.org X-Archives-Salt: d848721e-fc5b-4e11-881a-e089d806c3a2 X-Archives-Hash: 56d9260c2a2651a3f4b6e3140e174400 --=-HAPKiAYFrZPmyHZhC8Ex Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 02:44 +0200, Michiel de Bruijne wrote: > On Saturday 09 July 2005 01:35, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > > I think people is under a misconception about this option and ... you > > really only need to enable this for a driver that is not sysfs aware > > (nvidia comes to mind - any others?) >=20 > nvidia is also sysfs-aware and /dev-entries are created with udev, I have= =20 > RC_DEVICE_TARBALL=3D"no" set on all machines I maintain and a few of them= have=20 > a nvidia-card. Works perfectly. Hmm, what driver version? The earlier versions used to have a patch I wrote to get the support and then they did their own code. The last two or so releases however did not support this as far as I know (could be wrong, but do not look that way .. or with 2.6.11/12+ and 1.0.7* at least): ----- lycan ~ # grep nvidia /dev/.udevdb/* lycan ~ # bzcat /lib64/udev-state/devices.tar.bz2 | tar -t nvidiactl nvidia0 lycan ~ # ----- Regards, --=20 Martin Schlemmer Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer Cape Town, South Africa --=-HAPKiAYFrZPmyHZhC8Ex Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCzyFGqburzKaJYLYRAg2VAJ4ju1hSAMgfKqXTJjT6V72LF2TFTgCdFunN +QXBkY1+iPYeCSPiZqL5Dtk= =Bd0e -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-HAPKiAYFrZPmyHZhC8Ex-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list