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So, I installed udev and nothing, bootup scripts tell me kernel version needs to be >= 2.6.8, and well, there’s a long story that basically says I use 2.6.6. At Hans’ nudge, I modified the startup script to not care about the kernel version and vióla, udev.

Now this is where NVidia enters the story. udev is working great, my /dev directory no longer has a gazillion+ entries but rather fits in one screen. However, upon a reboot, the nvidia device drivers are no longer there. For a few reboots, I simply ran the NVidia installer when X failed to load. This got old fast and I found an answer on google. For debian, at least, you put the following in /etc/udev/links.conf:

M nvidia0 c 195 0

M nvidia1 c 195 1

M nvidiactl c 195 255

The funny thing is that I found this on a Gentoo site, describing the fix as “for debian.”