I used mknod in local.start. That seems to have fixed the problem. Side note: a 2.1.11 kernel that I had lying around created the devices correctly. I only had to do this for 2.1.13.
Thank you all. -Tracy -----Original Message----- From: Neil Bothwick Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 10:46 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system initialization scripts UDEV message On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 09:43:27 -0400, Budd, Tracy wrote: > I checked the Xorg.0.log. The only error message there was "Failed to > initialize NVIDIA kernel module." > I forgot to check dmesg. > I am wondering if I need to use mknod. Eventhough the nvidia module > seems to load (lsmod confirms this), I cannot find any entries in /dev > for nvidia. You need these lines in /etc/modules.d/nvidia # Nvidia drivers support alias char-major-195 nvidia alias /dev/nvidiactl char-major-195 Then run modules-update -- Neil Bothwick Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
