Anyone have the Nvidia driver working in 2.6.11-1.14_FC3?

[Marc Schwartz]

On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 11:45 -0400, Neal Wilkinson wrote:
> Marc Schwartz wrote:

<snip>

> >The two commands are:
> >
> >cp -a /dev/nvidia* /etc/udev/devices
> >chown root.root /etc/udev/devices/nvidia*
> >
> >Be sure to run these as root from a console.
> >
> >In actuality, these will not solve the permission issue, so after
> >running the above, as root, also run:
> >
> >chmod 0666 /etc/udev/devices/nvidia*
> >
> >That should take care of it.
> >
> >I have a feeling that the nvidia8 - nvidia15 files might be superfluous,
> >but without your starting from scratch on this, there may be no other
> >way to be sure.
> >
> >If you are planning to move to FC4, that would be a good time to start
> >again from a clean system, so for the time being, if this is working for
> >you without subsequent problems, I'd leave it as is after running the
> >above 3 commands.
> >
> >HTH,
> >
> >Marc
> >
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> Ok, after running those 3 I get the following.
> 
> [neal at home ~]$ ls -l /dev/nv*
> crw-------  1 neal root 195, 255 Apr 13 20:11 /dev/nvidia
> crw-------  1 neal root 195,   0 Apr 13 16:49 /dev/nvidia0
> crw-------  1 neal root 195,   1 Apr 13 16:49 /dev/nvidia1
> crw-------  1 neal root 195,  10 Mar 13 12:03 /dev/nvidia10
> crw-------  1 neal root 195,  11 Mar 13 12:03 /dev/nvidia11
> crw-------  1 neal root 195,  12 Mar 13 12:03 /dev/nvidia12
> crw-------  1 neal root 195,  13 Mar 13 12:03 /dev/nvidia13
> crw-------  1 neal root 195,  14 Mar 13 12:03 /dev/nvidia14
> crw-------  1 neal root 195,  15 Mar 13 12:03 /dev/nvidia15
> crw-------  1 neal root 195,   2 Apr 13 16:49 /dev/nvidia2
> crw-------  1 neal root 195,   3 Apr 13 16:49 /dev/nvidia3
> crw-------  1 neal root 195,   4 Apr 13 16:49 /dev/nvidia4
> crw-------  1 neal root 195,   5 Apr 13 16:49 /dev/nvidia5
> crw-------  1 neal root 195,   6 Apr 13 16:49 /dev/nvidia6
> crw-------  1 neal root 195,   7 Apr 13 16:49 /dev/nvidia7
> crw-------  1 neal root 195,   8 Mar 13 12:03 /dev/nvidia8
> crw-------  1 neal root 195,   9 Mar 13 12:03 /dev/nvidia9
> crw-------  1 neal root 195, 255 Apr 13 16:49 /dev/nvidiactl
> 
> [neal at home ~]$ ls -l /etc/udev/devices
> total 72
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195, 255 Apr 13 20:11 nvidia
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195,   0 Apr 13 16:49 nvidia0
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195,   1 Apr 13 16:49 nvidia1
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195,  10 Mar 13 12:03 nvidia10
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195,  11 Mar 13 12:03 nvidia11
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195,  12 Mar 13 12:03 nvidia12
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195,  13 Mar 13 12:03 nvidia13
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195,  14 Mar 13 12:03 nvidia14
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195,  15 Mar 13 12:03 nvidia15
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195,   2 Apr 13 16:49 nvidia2
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195,   3 Apr 13 16:49 nvidia3
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195,   4 Apr 13 16:49 nvidia4
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195,   5 Apr 13 16:49 nvidia5
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195,   6 Apr 13 16:49 nvidia6
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195,   7 Apr 13 16:49 nvidia7
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195,   8 Mar 13 12:03 nvidia8
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195,   9 Mar 13 12:03 nvidia9
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195, 255 Apr 13 16:49 nvidiactl
> 
> there isn't any difference is there? I didn't compare them line by line 
> but just glanced over the output


That looks correct now, nothwithstanding the open question on the
additional files.

The difference between the two are the file permissions and the
ownership. Review the 1st and 3rd columns in the output.

More information on file permissions and ownership is available by
using:

man chmod

and

man chown

in a console window.

For general knowledge, it might be worth your while to pick up one of
the Fedora books available. Given the Fedora release schedule, some of
the details will be outdated with each new release, but the basics of
Linux operation and administration will generally be the same over time.

HTH,

Marc