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 4.50) id 1EZGqg-0000cu-5F for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2005 23:56:26 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA7Nt0Vh021989; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 23:55:00 GMT Received: from tomts40-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts40.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.97]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jA7NmXDV003247 for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 23:48:34 GMT Received: from sympatico.ca ([70.49.176.106]) by tomts40-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with SMTP id <20051107234832.BFXL1799.tomts40-srv.bellnexxia.net@sympatico.ca> for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 18:48:32 -0500 Received: by sympatico.ca (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 7 Nov 2005 18:48:29 -0500 Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 18:48:29 -0500 From: Philip Webb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.14 & Nvidia [SOLVED] Message-ID: <20051107234829.GA6455@sympatico.ca> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20051107023737.GA6505@sympatico.ca> <436F7B8D.9040503@moodmedia.ro> <20051107200602.GD6591@sympatico.ca> <200511072331.04750.peper@aster.pl> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200511072331.04750.peper@aster.pl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: 9f3a809f-725c-4d12-acbb-ddbd38b33217 X-Archives-Hash: 3e6916965bdce47aac8a5e976f7a5f9e 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 : purslow@chass.utoronto.ca ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list