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

[Neal Wilkinson]

Marc Schwartz wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 10:17 -0400, Neal Wilkinson wrote:
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>>Marc Schwartz wrote:
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>>>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
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>>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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>Neal,
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>There are "extra" files there (nvidia8 - nvidia15) which is curious and
>the permissions on those files are wrong. It may be a result of the
>various things that have been done OR it may also very well be the
>result of the particular nVidia card you are using which perhaps
>requires the additional files.
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>I went back through the thread and unless I missed it, I did not see
>mention of which card you have. I have the GeForce FX Go 5200, on a Dell
>laptop.
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>Try to run:
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>ls -l /dev/nv*
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>and see what output you get there.
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>At this point, I think that I would in fact recommend that you run the
>two udev related commands, just to be sure. That will also solve the
>permission issues.
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>Marc
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I have a Geforce 2. Here is what I get.
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

What two commands are they?