Rebuilding nVidia Driver /dev/nvidia1

[danwarner2002]

After successfully rebuilding the RPM packages (I had downloaded the right ones) and ran the test program nvcheck.sh it failed.

It said that the location /dev/nvidia1 did not exist or that it hadn't loaded properly.

Whats wrong?

Dan

[logan]

make sure the device exists..

You should see nvidia0,1,2,3 and nvidiactl in /dev.

If one or more are missing, run the following:
mknod /dev/nvidia0 c 195 0 ; chmod 666 /dev/nvidia0
mknod /dev/nvidia1 c 195 1 ; chmod 666 /dev/nvidia1
mknod /dev/nvidia2 c 195 2 ; chmod 666 /dev/nvidia2
mknod /dev/nvidia3 c 195 3 ; chmod 666 /dev/nvidia3
mknod /dev/nvidiactl c 195 255 ; chmod 666 /dev/nvidiactl

[Thunderbird]

/dev/nvidia1 is only needed when you have more than one nvidia card. nvidia0 is used for card1, nvidia1 for card2 ...

So that doesn't have to be that serious.

[logan]

Could be a sign of a greater problem though, maybe makedevices.sh failed to run or crapped out after creating the first device...

Trashed rpm maybe.. Hard to say