Fedora 7 - RPM Build Nvidia 9755

[Lonni J Friedman]

The Livna mailing list threads that you referenced show a completely
different failure than what was originally reported in this thread.
And just because there are SELinux problems with the Livna NVIDIA
driver RPMs doesn't mean that the same problem exists in the official
NVIDIA driver packages.

On 4/5/07, Jonathan Berry <berryja at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
>
> It is a problem with SELinux.  For some reason, SELinux is preventing
> the nvidia* device files from being copied to /dev/ during boot.  See
> the Livna Graphics mailing list archives:
> http://livna.org/pipermail/freeworld-graphics/2007-March/000170.html
> http://livna.org/pipermail/freeworld-graphics/2007-April/000176.html
>
> Jonathan
>
> PS: Fedora 7 is still in testing.  As such, this discussion probably
> belongs more on the test list.  And if you wanted to post your
> experiences on the Linva list, I am sure that would be welcomed as
> well.

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