nvidia driver has to be manually loaded

[Kristof Vansant]

K nm seems to be only needed for older nvidia drivers that do not
support udev.

I found this interresting piece of info.

http://webpages.charter.net/decibelshelp/LinuxHelp_UDEVPrimer.html#Problems

seems like putting nvidia in /etc/modules is the best option like you
guys said :)

sorry for the trouble

On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 01:36 +0200, Kristof Vansant wrote:
> k I found it I think :) the problem is that there is no 
> crw-rw----    1 root     video    195,   0 Oct 13 01:22 nvidia0
> crw-rw----    1 root     video    195, 255 Oct 13 01:22 nvidiactl
> in /dev untill you load the module manual.
> 
> solution:
> 
> add to /etc/udev/links.conf:
> 
> M nvidia0 c 195 0
> M nvidia1 c 195 1
> M nvidiactl c 195 255
> 
> The M creates device nodes using /sbin/MAKEDEV
> 
> I think :)
> 
> should the nvidia package place this in the udev list or should udev
> package it self contain this by default?
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 00:47 +0200, Kristof Vansant wrote:
> > shouldn't this take care of the loading of the module?
> > 
> > This was installed on my system by the package:
> > 
> > lupus at lupus /etc/modprobe.d $ cat nvidia-kernel-nkc
> > alias char-major-195* nvidia
> > 
> > something wrong with the file or with modprobe?
> > 
> > On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 23:52 +0200, Kristof Vansant wrote:
> > > shouldn't the package on install do this itself?
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 14:35 -0700, list at ubuntuforums.org wrote:
> > > > Run this command afterwards it will do the loading for you.
> > > > 
> > > > sudo nvidia-glx-config enable
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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