ODD NVIDIA GUI booting problem.

[Brian Gerst]

Aaron Gaudio wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 17:45 -0400, Brian Gerst wrote:
> 
> 
>>No.  The idea behind udev is that it is supposed to scan all the devices 
>>present at boot time and create device nodes (aka Cold Plugging).  The 
>>current scripts only scan certain classes of devices though, and video 
>>is not included.
> 
> 
> However, if I have char-major-226 listed as an alias in modprobe.conf,
> when X tries to open a device node with char major 226, shouldn't the
> kernel attempt to automount that alias, or is that not supported
> anymore?
> 

The problem is that there is no device node to open.  It hasn't been 
created and won't be until the module is loaded.  Catch-22.

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				Brian Gerst