Anyone have the Nvidia driver working in 2.6.11-1.14_FC3?

Neal Wilkinson forums.lists at comcast.net
Thu Apr 14 15:45:09 UTC 2005


Marc Schwartz wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 11:14 -0400, Neal Wilkinson wrote:
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>>Marc Schwartz wrote:
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>>>Neal,
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>>>There are "extra" files there (nvidia8 - nvidia15) which is curious
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>>and
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>>>the permissions on those files are wrong. It may be a result of the
>>>various things that have been done OR it may also very well be the
>>>result of the particular nVidia card you are using which perhaps
>>>requires the additional files.
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>>>I went back through the thread and unless I missed it, I did not see
>>>mention of which card you have. I have the GeForce FX Go 5200, on a
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>>Dell
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>>>laptop.
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>>>Try to run:
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>>>ls -l /dev/nv*
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>>>and see what output you get there.
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>>>At this point, I think that I would in fact recommend that you run
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>>the
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>>>two udev related commands, just to be sure. That will also solve the
>>>permission issues.
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>>>Marc
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>>I have a Geforce 2. Here is what I get.
>>crw-------  1 neal root 195, 255 Apr 13 20:11 /dev/nvidia
>>crw-------  1 neal root 195,   0 Apr 13 16:49 /dev/nvidia0
>>crw-------  1 neal root 195,   1 Apr 13 16:49 /dev/nvidia1
>>crw-------  1 neal root 195,  10 Mar 13 12:03 /dev/nvidia10
>>crw-------  1 neal root 195,  11 Mar 13 12:03 /dev/nvidia11
>>crw-------  1 neal root 195,  12 Mar 13 12:03 /dev/nvidia12
>>crw-------  1 neal root 195,  13 Mar 13 12:03 /dev/nvidia13
>>crw-------  1 neal root 195,  14 Mar 13 12:03 /dev/nvidia14
>>crw-------  1 neal root 195,  15 Mar 13 12:03 /dev/nvidia15
>>crw-------  1 neal root 195,   2 Apr 13 16:49 /dev/nvidia2
>>crw-------  1 neal root 195,   3 Apr 13 16:49 /dev/nvidia3
>>crw-------  1 neal root 195,   4 Apr 13 16:49 /dev/nvidia4
>>crw-------  1 neal root 195,   5 Apr 13 16:49 /dev/nvidia5
>>crw-------  1 neal root 195,   6 Apr 13 16:49 /dev/nvidia6
>>crw-------  1 neal root 195,   7 Apr 13 16:49 /dev/nvidia7
>>crw-------  1 neal root 195,   8 Mar 13 12:03 /dev/nvidia8
>>crw-------  1 neal root 195,   9 Mar 13 12:03 /dev/nvidia9
>>crw-------  1 neal root 195, 255 Apr 13 16:49 /dev/nvidiactl
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>>What two commands are they?
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>The two commands are:
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>cp -a /dev/nvidia* /etc/udev/devices
>chown root.root /etc/udev/devices/nvidia*
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>Be sure to run these as root from a console.
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>In actuality, these will not solve the permission issue, so after
>running the above, as root, also run:
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>chmod 0666 /etc/udev/devices/nvidia*
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>That should take care of it.
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>I have a feeling that the nvidia8 - nvidia15 files might be superfluous,
>but without your starting from scratch on this, there may be no other
>way to be sure.
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>If you are planning to move to FC4, that would be a good time to start
>again from a clean system, so for the time being, if this is working for
>you without subsequent problems, I'd leave it as is after running the
>above 3 commands.
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>HTH,
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>Marc
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Ok, after running those 3 I get the following.

[neal at home ~]$ ls -l /dev/nv*
crw-------  1 neal root 195, 255 Apr 13 20:11 /dev/nvidia
crw-------  1 neal root 195,   0 Apr 13 16:49 /dev/nvidia0
crw-------  1 neal root 195,   1 Apr 13 16:49 /dev/nvidia1
crw-------  1 neal root 195,  10 Mar 13 12:03 /dev/nvidia10
crw-------  1 neal root 195,  11 Mar 13 12:03 /dev/nvidia11
crw-------  1 neal root 195,  12 Mar 13 12:03 /dev/nvidia12
crw-------  1 neal root 195,  13 Mar 13 12:03 /dev/nvidia13
crw-------  1 neal root 195,  14 Mar 13 12:03 /dev/nvidia14
crw-------  1 neal root 195,  15 Mar 13 12:03 /dev/nvidia15
crw-------  1 neal root 195,   2 Apr 13 16:49 /dev/nvidia2
crw-------  1 neal root 195,   3 Apr 13 16:49 /dev/nvidia3
crw-------  1 neal root 195,   4 Apr 13 16:49 /dev/nvidia4
crw-------  1 neal root 195,   5 Apr 13 16:49 /dev/nvidia5
crw-------  1 neal root 195,   6 Apr 13 16:49 /dev/nvidia6
crw-------  1 neal root 195,   7 Apr 13 16:49 /dev/nvidia7
crw-------  1 neal root 195,   8 Mar 13 12:03 /dev/nvidia8
crw-------  1 neal root 195,   9 Mar 13 12:03 /dev/nvidia9
crw-------  1 neal root 195, 255 Apr 13 16:49 /dev/nvidiactl

[neal at home ~]$ ls -l /etc/udev/devices
total 72
crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195, 255 Apr 13 20:11 nvidia
crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195,   0 Apr 13 16:49 nvidia0
crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195,   1 Apr 13 16:49 nvidia1
crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195,  10 Mar 13 12:03 nvidia10
crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195,  11 Mar 13 12:03 nvidia11
crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195,  12 Mar 13 12:03 nvidia12
crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195,  13 Mar 13 12:03 nvidia13
crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195,  14 Mar 13 12:03 nvidia14
crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195,  15 Mar 13 12:03 nvidia15
crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195,   2 Apr 13 16:49 nvidia2
crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195,   3 Apr 13 16:49 nvidia3
crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195,   4 Apr 13 16:49 nvidia4
crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195,   5 Apr 13 16:49 nvidia5
crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195,   6 Apr 13 16:49 nvidia6
crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195,   7 Apr 13 16:49 nvidia7
crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195,   8 Mar 13 12:03 nvidia8
crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195,   9 Mar 13 12:03 nvidia9
crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 195, 255 Apr 13 16:49 nvidiactl

there isn't any difference is there? I didn't compare them line by line 
but just glanced over the output




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