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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Problem with nvidia_driver
  • Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 08:07:08 -0700

Quoting 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.
<snip>

I believe they've added sysfs support as I modified /etc/udev/udev.permissions
to make nvidia* 0666, ran `udevstart`, and all my /dev/nvidia* devices were
fixed.

-sandalle

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