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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 04:20:58PM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Quoting Duane Malcolm <d.malcolm AT auckland.ac.nz>:
> > I don't know if this is related, but I have to cast nvidia without X 
> > going. Also recently, my /dev/nvidia* has go-rw priviledges

That's odd, either the nvidia installer changes those or they finally
added sysfs support to their driver so udev creates the devices.
Can someone check that? Just remove /dev/nvidia* and run udevstart, if
they show up again they did add sysfs support.

> NVIDIA's installer tries to rmmod/insmod the "nvidia" module, so if the 
> module
> is in use the installer fails.
> 
> As for permissions, you should modify /etc/udev/udev.permissions to give 
> nvidia*
> 0666 permissions (IIRC). Should we add that to udev?
 
Up to now the nvidia devices were created by the devices init script
based on /etc/udev/udev.missing with permissions 0666, if udev now
creates them itself we should add those permissions to the
udev.permissions file we install (and remove them from udev.missing).

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