On Wed, 05 Jul 2006, Philipp Riegger wrote: > On Jul 5, 2006, at 12:32 PM, Urs Schuetz wrote: > > >>>Check whether you have /dev/nvidia[0..9] and /dev/nvidiactl. > >> > >>I don't have them. But the kernel module is loaded. I'll have a look > >>at udev now. > > > >They are essential, you want them. > >From http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml : > > > > Code Listing 3.2: Creating the nvidia device nodes > > > > # /sbin/NVmakedevices.sh > > > > If your /dev/nvidia devices are still missing every time you > > reboot, then it is most likely because udev is not > > automatically creating the proper device nodes. You can fix > > this by re-running NVmakedevices.sh, and then editing > > /etc/conf.d/rc as shown: > > > > Code Listing 3.3: Editing /etc/conf.d/rc > > > > RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="yes" > > > > This will preserve your /dev/nvidia nodes even if you reboot. > > That solved my problem, thank you. I wonder why i never had problems > with this before.
In my case it was because of a recent package upgrade (don't remember what it was) followed by a etc-update, which changed the line in /etc/conf.d/rc from RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="yes" to RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="no", and therefore a reboot did no longer recreate the /dev/nvidia* devices. So I lost the /dev/nvidia* devices. This seems to be already solved with the newest nvidia drivers acording to [1]. Glad I could help. Urs [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
