Fedora 7 - RPM Build Nvidia 9755
Lonni J Friedman
netllama at gmail.com
Thu Apr 5 16:37:18 UTC 2007
On 4/5/07, Derek Tracy <tracyde at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/5/07, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 4/5/07, Derek Tracy <tracyde at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I have been running Fedora 7 for a couple of weeks now and must say it
> > > is a really great distro. I switched from Gentoo and love not having
> > > to configure every single aspect of my system myself. With that being
> > > said I have run into a snag, since the kernel keeps changing revisions
> > > I am unable to install Nvidia Drivers from an RPM, so I have
> > > downloaded the src and created an RPM myself. Everything compiles
> > > fine and installs ok, and it works until I restart my system.
> > >
> > > After a system restart there are some device files that do not get
> > > recreated (/dev/nvidiactl is one of them) and then I am unable to
> > > start the Nvidia Drivers until I uninstall and then reinstall the
> > > Nvidia Driver RPM that I created. Can somebody point me in the right
> > > direction so I can start hacking away at this issue?
> >
> > There's absolutely nothing to start hacking, and hacking will likely
> > break things far worse. All of the /dev/nvidia* character devices are
> > created when X is started with the nvidia driver. If that's not
> > happening then it sounds like your nvidia driver installation is
> > broken. Does this problem persist if you install the official NVIDIA
> > driver package?
> >
>
> I have not tried to install the "Official Nvidia Driver Package",
> because, I wanted to install only using RPM's. The Nvidia driver does
> not create the /dev/nvidia* char devices when X attempts to start. Is
> it possible that this is an SELinux / Hal permission error?
Its possible, but rather doubtful. If this problem persists if you
install the official NVIDIA
driver package, then see:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=46678
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