18 Dec
2004
18 Dec
'04
4:09 p.m.
On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 12:41, Christoph Eckert wrote:
Just went through this at work. You have to copy the nvidia devices
to udev. After you install the nvidia driver cp /dev/nvidia* to the
udev directory. If you don't do this and you reboot your video won't
work. In that case do a modprobe of the nvidia driver and then copy
/dev/nvidia* to udev. I can't remember the exact locations and commands
but if you google for nvidia and udev you can probably find the
instructions.
Jan
If I
understand you correctly, then udev should be able to
solve your problem.
"udev allows Linux users to have a dynamic /dev directory
and it provides the ability to have persistent device
names."
Thanks for the hint. I'm on Gentoo here, and udev gets
discussed in the list from time to time.
On the other hand, I'm not a great linux guru; I'm proud to
have successfully configured and built my own kernel matching
my audio setup; but udev is more difficult because it will
cause problems, namely with the NVidia drivers I use (and I
shouldn't use because it's not free software, of course ;-).