On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 16:15, Michel Bellemare wrote: > Hi, > > I followed carefully the instructions given in the doc to enable my video card > to work in gentoo. > But when i start the X server, i've got this error message > > NV:could not open control device /dev/nvidiactl (no such file or directory) > (EE)NVIDIA (o): failed to initialized NVIDIA kernel module > (EE)NVIDIA(o):**aborting** > > well,i can see that nvidiactl is missing, but is it normal and does someone > knows a way to fix this? > > thank you for taking time to reply I've had a similar problem after an emerge -Du world after fresh install. I fixed this problem by doing the following:
> emerge nvidia nvidia-glx > genkernel Not sure what exactly was wrong, nor exactly what fixed it. But it did the job for me. Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
