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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FyD1B-00054h-Kt for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 19:26:38 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k65JMp3g028219; Wed, 5 Jul 2006 19:22:51 GMT Received: from bender.bawue.de (bender.bawue.de [193.7.176.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k65J8TC8030182 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2006 19:08:29 GMT Received: from [192.168.0.9] (p54A0735F.dip.t-dialin.net [84.160.115.95]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by bender.bawue.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0206F442EF for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2006 21:08:29 +0200 (MEST) In-Reply-To: <20060705103252.GA8533@putty> References: <44A95661.9080900@anderedomain.de> <20060703230545.GA505@putty> <165685EE-FB06-4DFB-97CF-67976432E63C@anderedomain.de> <20060705103252.GA8533@putty> 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 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <4BD0361D-5607-4567-A3D6-93A163D583D5@anderedomain.de> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Philipp Riegger Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 7.0 does not work with nvidia-glx-1.0.7174-r5 Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 21:08:32 +0200 To: gentoo MailingList X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Archives-Salt: e3be0c7e-bd64-426e-8c75-f499ba18b486 X-Archives-Hash: ca42bdb29c7b81e84aeeff7ec6ddf67d On Jul 5, 2006, at 12:32 PM, Urs Schuetz wrote: >>> Check whether you have /dev/nvidia[0..9] and /dev/nvidiactl. >> >> I don't have them. But the kernel module is loaded. I'll have a look >> at udev now. > > They are essential, you want them. > From http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml : > > Code Listing 3.2: Creating the nvidia device nodes > > # /sbin/NVmakedevices.sh > > If your /dev/nvidia devices are still missing every time you > reboot, then it is most likely because udev is not > automatically creating the proper device nodes. You can fix > this by re-running NVmakedevices.sh, and then editing > /etc/conf.d/rc as shown: > > Code Listing 3.3: Editing /etc/conf.d/rc > > RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="yes" > > This will preserve your /dev/nvidia nodes even if you reboot. That solved my problem, thank you. I wonder why i never had problems with this before. Philipp -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list