[gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.2 + Latest nVidia driver= Unable to initialize kernel module -> a solution

[Mitchell James]

I was having problems with making a working system using the latest 
Linux kernel and nvidia driver.  When the kernel module was loaded there 
where no /dev/nv* entries.  Trying to start X resulted in "Unable to 
initialize kernel module" messages.  Yet it was working in a 2.4.23 
kernel on the same machine.  I finally realized that the only major 
difference between the two kernels was that I had not enabled /devfs in 
2.6.2 because it is obsolete.  I recompiled with it enabled and it 
worked as well as with the 2.4.23 kernel.

-- Enable /devfs for 2.6.2 kernels and nvidia.

Mitchell James

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