On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 10:17 -0400, Neal Wilkinson wrote: > Marc Schwartz wrote: > > >On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 07:50 -0400, Neal Wilkinson wrote: > > > ><snip> > > > > > > > >>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. > >> > >> > > > >Neal, > > > >It is possible that the changes you made by copying the .ko file has > >changed the underlying behavior, which is not a bad thing. > > > >I do not believe that by running the two commands you will hurt > >anything. > > > >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. > > > >You might want to run: > > > >$ ls -l /etc/udev/devices > > > >and see what you get. If it is something like: > > > >$ 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 > > > >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. > > > >HTH, > > > >Marc > > > > > > > > > > > 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 Neal, 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. 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. 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 the two udev related commands, just to be sure. That will also solve the permission issues. Marc
