On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 12:24:24PM +0200, Alexander Fieroch wrote: > every time I reboot my computer (SID, kernel 2.6.13) xorg can not load > the nvidia driver build with m-a. > I have uninstalled the previously installed proprietary nvidia driver > and build the nvidia driver with m-a. Then I've installed nvidia-glx and > restarted gdm - xorg is working. After reboot the nvidia driver can not > be loaded and xorg does not start but I can reinstall the previously > build /usr/src/nvidia-kernel-2.6.13_1.0.7174-3_amd64.deb and xorg is > working again. > What's the problem?
/var/log/Xorg.0.log has the information to debug this. Apparently, in 2.6.13 the sysfs symbols were marked GPL only. This means that the nvidia entries don't make it, so udev can't create the special files in /dev. Creating the files by hand worked for me. I've also added lines to my udev config, but haven't booted since. The changes were: At the end of /etc/udev/links.conf: # sysfs doesn't play with non-GPL modules as of 2.6.13 M nvidia0 c 195 0 M nvidia1 c 195 1 M nvidia2 c 195 2 M nvidia3 c 195 3 M nvidiactl c 195 255 At the end of /etc/udev/permissions.rules: # nVidia KERNEL=="nvidia*", MODE="0660", GROUP="video" -- Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
