Or, you can patch the nvidia kernel driver with the patch at
http://www.cyber.com.au/users/ashridah/ .
I've made an SRPM with this patch too; you can download it at,
http://nurk.org/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-1251devfs.src.rpm
cheers,
--
Sean J. Swallow
pgp (6.5.2) keyfile @ https://nurk.org/keyfile.txt
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Mike Gigante wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Cliff Wells wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I know this is just a test release, but you should
> > know that the nVidia driver available from the nVidia
> > website doesn't work when installed on the Redhat
> > 7.1-XFS system.
>
> Actually, this is a devfs issue and is actually discussed in the
> README that comes with the accelerated Nvidia drivers.
>
> They suggest re-installing the accelerated drivers each time before
> starting X. This does work, but even better is to disable devfs
>
> In you lilo.conf, add
>
> append="devfs=nomount"
>
> in the xfs-1.0 section (or in the global section if you like).
>
> Mike
>
>
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