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Re: cvs down? nvidia drivers w/ devfs + xfs?

To: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: cvs down? nvidia drivers w/ devfs + xfs?
From: Juri Haberland <list-linux.sgi.xfs@spoiled.org>
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 23:32:06 +0000 (UTC)
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Timothy Ball <timball@tux.org> wrote:

> Second I'm having issues making the nvidia drivers work w/ devfs I don't
> know if this is specific to the xfs tree but since I don't use the
> normal kernel tree anymore it's a bit of an issue.

AFAIK the Nvidia drivers do not work well with devfs. I think you have
to create a special device entry in /dev every time you boot, though I can't
remember which one it was...
Did you look into the documentation that came with the drivers? I think 
they mention the devfs problem.

Juri

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Juri Haberland  <juri@koschikode.com>

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