Re: nvida driver is not working after reboot
Rob Sims wrote:
/var/log/Xorg.0.log has the information to debug this.
Apparently, in 2.6.13 the sysfs symbols were marked GPL only. This
means that the nvidia entries don't make it, so udev can't create the
special files in /dev.
Creating the files by hand worked for me. I've also added lines to my
udev config, but haven't booted since. The changes were:
At the end of /etc/udev/links.conf:
# sysfs doesn't play with non-GPL modules as of 2.6.13
M nvidia0 c 195 0
M nvidia1 c 195 1
M nvidia2 c 195 2
M nvidia3 c 195 3
M nvidiactl c 195 255
At the end of /etc/udev/permissions.rules:
# nVidia
KERNEL=="nvidia*", MODE="0660", GROUP="video"
Hm, I did both and xorg is running again, but the devices /dev/nvidia*
do not belong to the group video and the mode is not set to 660:
crw------- 1 root root 195, 0 2005-09-26 19:48 /dev/nvidia0
crw------- 1 root root 195, 1 2005-09-26 19:48 /dev/nvidia1
crw------- 1 root root 195, 2 2005-09-26 19:48 /dev/nvidia2
crw------- 1 root root 195, 3 2005-09-26 19:48 /dev/nvidia3
crw------- 1 root root 195, 255 2005-09-26 19:48 /dev/nvidiactl
The group video does exist and I added at the end of
/etc/udev/permissions.rules:
# nvidia
KERNEL=="nvidia*", MODE="0660", GROUP="video"
So what's missing that no group permissions are set?
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