Marc Schwartz wrote:
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 11:14 -0400, Neal Wilkinson wrote:
Marc Schwartz wrote:
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andNeal,
There are "extra" files there (nvidia8 - nvidia15) which is curious
Dellthe 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.
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
thelaptop.
Try to run:
ls -l /dev/nv*
and see what output you get there.
At this point, I think that I would in fact recommend that you run
two udev related commands, just to be sure. That will also solve the permission issues.
Marc
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?
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@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@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
