From: Arcady Genkin <agenkin-dated-1014155832.1b9f28@thpoon.com>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Overhaul of media-gfx/nvidia
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 17:01:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uou1svbnb9.fsf@bashful.cdf.toronto.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1012935607.17407.46.camel@nosferatu.lan> (Martin Schlemmer's message of "05 Feb 2002 21:00:04 +0200")
Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org> writes:
>> 3. nvidia-kernel now creates necessary device nodes.
>
> Using devfs, I never had a problem with device nodes.
Right. This was pointed out by Daniel, and this step is excluded from
the default setup. The nvidia-kernel package provides a script to
create the devices for users who don't use devfs.
>> 4. nvidia-kernel now installs aliases.
>>
>> The small downside of the new layout is that the user needs to add a
>> modules path to the Files section in XF86Config.
>
> Gentoo linux always did have the nodes. Have a look at:
>
> /etc/modules.d/aliases
I didn't notice the NVIDIA stuff tehre. Thanks for pointing this out.
The package installs /etc/modules.d/nvidia. We should, probably, move
all the nvidia-driver specific entries from /etc/modules.d/modules
into /etc/modues.d/nvidia.
--
Arcady Genkin
Don't read everything you believe.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-05 22:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-04 5:10 [gentoo-dev] RFC: Overhaul of media-gfx/nvidia Arcady Genkin
2002-02-04 16:04 ` Bart Verwilst
2002-02-04 17:04 ` Arcady Genkin
2002-02-05 19:00 ` Martin Schlemmer
2002-02-05 22:01 ` Arcady Genkin [this message]
2002-02-07 3:32 ` Edward Muller
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