[SATLUG] udev completely broken in Fedora 7?

[Sean Carolan]

I'm having a hell of a time dealing with udev on my FC7 box.  No
matter what I do the settings don't seem to stick, so I've had to put
some ugly hacks into /etc/rc.local to get my system functional.
Here's the latest issue:

When I try to boot up the box, the X server fails saying that
/dev/nvidiactl does not exist.  This is something that's supposed to
be created by udev at boot time.  Mkay, fine.  So I put a file into
/etc/udev/makedev.d called 60-nvidia.nodes with the following content:

[scarolan at kalki makedev.d]$ cat 60-nvidia.nodes
nvidia0
nvidia1
nvidia2
nvidia3
nvidiactl

One would hope this fixes the problem but no dice.  My current
workaround is to yum remove and yum install the nvidia drivers at boot
time.  Not ideal but it gets my GUI back up and running.  Any udev
experts out there?