I had the same problem with my nvidia drivers. You need a patch for
the nvidia drivers to work with devfs. I got mine from #nvidia on
openprojects IRC server(s). Go there and ask around. They are quite
helpful
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On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Juan Casero wrote:
> I have a question about devfs and XFS on a Linux box. I run RedHat 7.0
> with XFS exclusively on my primary Linux workstation. This box uses an
> NVidia TNT2 Pro video card and XFree86 4.0.1 so naturally I want to install
> and run the specilized drivers provided by nvidia for XFree86 4.0.1. There
> is a problem though; when I install the nvidia drivers (after compiling them
> myself they create an entry in /dev called nvidiactl or something like that.
> Since the entries in /dev are creating dynamically the entries in /dev
> created
> by the nvidia software get wiped out when the system shuts down. Therefore
> when it comes back up the XFree86 provided nvidia drivers die and I can't
> start X. A clumsy solution would be to boot into runlevel 3 each time and
> recreate the entries myself for each session but that is not a good
> approach.
> Is there a way to force the system to create the entries in /dev for the
> nvidia drivers each time it reboots? If you don't feel like going into
> details
> about how to do this but you know where documentation is online please point
> me in the right direction.
>
>
> Thanks......
>
> Juan Casero
> casero@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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