Marc Schwartz wrote:
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:
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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.
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
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?
