Fedora 7 - RPM Build Nvidia 9755

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 4/5/07, Derek Tracy <tracyde at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been running Fedora 7 for a couple of weeks now and must say it
> is a really great distro.  I switched from Gentoo and love not having
> to configure every single aspect of my system myself.  With that being
> said I have run into a snag, since the kernel keeps changing revisions
> I am unable to install Nvidia Drivers from an RPM, so I have
> downloaded the src and created an RPM myself.  Everything compiles
> fine and installs ok, and it works until I restart my system.
>
> After a system restart there are some device files that do not get
> recreated (/dev/nvidiactl is one of them) and then I am unable to
> start the Nvidia Drivers until I uninstall and then reinstall the
> Nvidia Driver RPM that I created.  Can somebody point me in the right
> direction so I can start hacking away at this issue?

There's absolutely nothing to start hacking, and hacking will likely
break things far worse.  All of the /dev/nvidia* character devices are
created when X is started with the nvidia driver.  If that's not
happening then it sounds like your nvidia driver installation is
broken.  Does this problem persist if you install the official NVIDIA
driver package?


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