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

Neal Wilkinson forums.lists at comcast.net
Thu Apr 14 14:17:47 UTC 2005


Marc Schwartz wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 07:50 -0400, Neal Wilkinson wrote:
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>>It works though when I reboot. I don't need to reinstall. Should I go 
>>ahead and run what you suggested? If it won't hurt anything I'll give it 
>>a shot.
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>Neal,
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>It is possible that the changes you made by copying the .ko file has
>changed the underlying behavior, which is not a bad thing.
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>I do not believe that by running the two commands you will hurt
>anything.
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>However, if you are not having trouble during a re-boot, which is the
>key symptom of the udev problem, you may not need to. In other words, if
>it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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>You might want to run:
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>$ ls -l /etc/udev/devices
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>and see what you get. If it is something like:
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>$ ls -l /etc/udev/devices
>crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195,   0 Apr 11 17:01 nvidia0
>crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195,   1 Apr 11 17:01 nvidia1
>crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195,   2 Apr 11 17:01 nvidia2
>crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195,   3 Apr 11 17:01 nvidia3
>crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195,   4 Apr 11 17:01 nvidia4
>crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195,   5 Apr 11 17:01 nvidia5
>crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195,   6 Apr 11 17:01 nvidia6
>crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195,   7 Apr 11 17:01 nvidia7
>crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195, 255 Apr 11 17:01 nvidiactl
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>Then you are probably OK as is. The dates of these files correspond to
>my last kernel upgrade and re-run of the nVidia installer.
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>HTH,
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>Marc
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I get this

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-------  1 root root 195,  10 Mar 13 12:03 nvidia10
crw-------  1 root root 195,  11 Mar 13 12:03 nvidia11
crw-------  1 root root 195,  12 Mar 13 12:03 nvidia12
crw-------  1 root root 195,  13 Mar 13 12:03 nvidia13
crw-------  1 root root 195,  14 Mar 13 12:03 nvidia14
crw-------  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-------  1 root root 195,   8 Mar 13 12:03 nvidia8
crw-------  1 root root 195,   9 Mar 13 12:03 nvidia9
crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195, 255 Apr 13 16:49 nvidiactl




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