ODD NVIDIA GUI booting problem.

[Aaron Gaudio]

On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 18:50 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 18:37, Aaron Gaudio wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 17:45 -0400, Brian Gerst wrote:
> > 
> > > No.  The idea behind udev is that it is supposed to scan all the devices 
> > > present at boot time and create device nodes (aka Cold Plugging).  The 
> > > current scripts only scan certain classes of devices though, and video 
> > > is not included.
> > 
> > However, if I have char-major-226 listed as an alias in modprobe.conf,
> > when X tries to open a device node with char major 226, shouldn't the
> > kernel attempt to automount that alias, or is that not supported
> > anymore?
> 
> with udev the device node only gets created on driver load....
> 

Ah, I get it. I'm an old devfs user from back in the day, but never took
the time to look into how udev operates.