On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 12:41, Christoph Eckert wrote: > > If I understand you correctly, then udev should be able to > > solve your problem. > > > > "udev allows Linux users to have a dynamic /dev directory > > and it provides the ability to have persistent device > > names." > > Thanks for the hint. I'm on Gentoo here, and udev gets > discussed in the list from time to time. > > On the other hand, I'm not a great linux guru; I'm proud to > have successfully configured and built my own kernel matching > my audio setup; but udev is more difficult because it will > cause problems, namely with the NVidia drivers I use (and I > shouldn't use because it's not free software, of course ;-). > Just went through this at work. You have to copy the nvidia devices to udev. After you install the nvidia driver cp /dev/nvidia* to the udev directory. If you don't do this and you reboot your video won't work. In that case do a modprobe of the nvidia driver and then copy /dev/nvidia* to udev. I can't remember the exact locations and commands but if you google for nvidia and udev you can probably find the instructions. Jan