Fedora 7 - RPM Build Nvidia 9755

[Derek Tracy]

On 4/5/07, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
>

I have not tried to install the "Official Nvidia Driver Package",
because, I wanted to install only using RPM's.  The Nvidia driver does
not create the /dev/nvidia* char devices when X attempts to start.  Is
it possible that this is an SELinux / Hal permission error?


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Derek Tracy
tracyde at gmail.com
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