Am Dienstag, 11. Oktober 2005 09:58 schrieb Drew Tomlinson: > Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > >Hi! > > > >After upgrading the system and hence switching to kernel 2.6.13 and > > udev, my nvidia device nodes are no longer available and I did not find > > any way to create them automatically by udev. > > > >According to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml, I have > >* nvidia listed in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6, and verified that > > it is loaded. > >* media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r4 is installed > >* sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.13-r1 is installed > > > >Additionally, I installed the coldplug package. > > > >grep nvidia /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules > >KERNEL=="nvidia*", NAME="%k", GROUP="video" > > > >Why is there no /dev/nvidia[0-7] and nvidiactl ? > >What did I forget? > > > >Thanks for suggestions and greetings > > Alex > > I recall reading somewhere that because of the binary nature of the > nvidia driver, you have to re-emerge it after building a new kernel. > Seems like it was on a gentoo.org page about the nvidia driver. >
I did this after installing the new kernel, and I re-emerged it again just to make sure, but it didn't help. Still, I don't have /dev/nvidia* created by udev, I have to create them by myself. Greetings, Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list