From: claude <claude@snscrew.net>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: udev vs nvidia
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 20:36:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <403129DF.7090107@snscrew.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40312612.7070700@reactivated.net>
Daniel Drake wrote:
> Hi,
>
Hi,
> Since switching to udev, I have had problems when starting X relating to
> nvidia drivers. I know this is a tricky situation, with the nvidia
> drivers being closed-source, nobody really knows how they work. If it
> seems likely that this problem is not udev-related, then please tell me,
> and I will go to nvidia instead.
>
> I'm not sure if this is even anything to do with udev. The only reason I
> suspect udev might be involved, is because of the existance of /dev
> nodes seems to play a part.
>
>
> I am running nvidia drivers version 5336 with Martin Schlemmer's patch
> applied to make them export info into sysfs.
> If I manually "modprobe nvidia", then I can see that the /dev/nvidia0
> and /dev/nvidiactl nodes are created. So at this stage it seems to be
> loaded.
>
>
>
> My theory is that X loads the "nvidia" module, and then immediately
> tries to initialize the display and whatever else. But as the nvidia*
> nodes arent in place, it dies.
>
> I am running udev017 on linux 2.6.3-rc2-mm1
>
> Any ideas?
>
Is :
alias char-major-195* nvidia
present in your /etc/modules.conf ?
> cheers,
>
> Daniel
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-16 20:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-16 20:20 udev vs nvidia Daniel Drake
2004-02-16 20:33 ` Daniel Drake
2004-02-16 20:36 ` claude [this message]
2004-02-25 21:27 ` Daniel Drake
2004-02-26 16:25 ` MALET JL
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