I was having trouble with getting nvidia drivers to work after moving to udev and all the criteria in http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml were met. A root around on gentoo-wiki.com turned up this: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Customizing_UDEV#udev_vs_Nvidia.27s_graphics_drivers There may be a better way to do it as a udev rule but that works for me so I just thought I'd suggest it anyway. Regards Dave
(In reply to comment #0) > I was having trouble with getting nvidia drivers to work after moving to udev > and all the criteria in http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml were met. A > root around on gentoo-wiki.com turned up this: > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Customizing_UDEV#udev_vs_Nvidia.27s_graphics_drivers > > There may be a better way to do it as a udev rule but that works for me so I > just thought I'd suggest it anyway. This is extremely old information. The gentoo-wiki guide's way of doing things is really only for versions of nvidia-kernel <=1.0.5336-r4; that version is not even in the tree anymore. All versions since have the correct functionality built in, as long as you add "nvidia" to modules.autoload.d. There's no real reason to do anything else like adding commands to local.start. Besides, udev has been the default for a little while now for (semi)recent kernel sources. Unless you're coming from a seriously legacy 2.6 kernel, you won't ever need to do "emerge udev", and you still shouldn't run into problems with nvidia, as the versions >1.0.5336-r4 are fixed wrt the udev/X issue.
CCing docs-team
As stated in comment #1, this is old info for old versions not in the tree. No longer the right way of doing things, and we aren't responsible for gentoo-wiki's outdated, bad instructions. Closing.
