Or you could get the devfs patch for the nvidia kernel module found here:
http://www.cyber.com.au/users/ashridah/nvidia_1.0.1251_devfs.diff
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001 20:11:04 -0400
Anthony DeStefano <destefan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, D. Stimits wrote:
> >
> > > > > 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.
> > > >
> > > > The nVidia drivers don't work with devfs (as stated in their README),
> > > > and
> > > > the SGI kernels have devfs turned on. Try turning off devfs and see if
> > > > that helps.
> > > >
> > > I can confirm that my working version does NOT use devfs.
> >
> > ditto. i disabled devfs, since it was hosing other things...
> >
>
> I have the nvidia driver working perfectly fine on my Debian system with the
> xfs kernel out of CVS and devfs enabled. Now the Debian devfsd package has
> support for adding extra devices in /dev by basically using mknod, chmod, and
> chown on options it parses out of a file. So you may want to try the
> following in /etc/rc.d/rc.local (NOTE: this was pulled out of the
> makedevices.sh from the NVIDIA_kernel tarball)
>
>
> major=195
>
> for i in 0 1 2 3; do
> devfile="/dev/nvidia$i"
> rm -f $devfile
> if ! mknod $devfile c $major $i || ! chmod 0666 $devfile; then
> echo "Couldn't create device \"$devfile\"."
> exit 1
> fi
> done
>
> devfile=/dev/nvidiactl
> rm -f $devfile
> mknod $devfile c $major 255
> chmod 0666 $devfile
>
>
> Seems to work fine here.
>
> ~Tony
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- Zoltan Kraus
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