Re: [SLUG] FC3 experiences -- Problems

From: Bryan J. Smith (b.j.smith@ieee.org)
Date: Tue Dec 07 2004 - 23:02:54 EST


On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 20:56, Vernon Singleton wrote:
> the issue was that the nvidia module was not auto-loading.
> the default run level was 5 already, but without the nvidia module autoload, i
> did ...
> echo "/sbin/modprobe nvidia" >>/etc/rc.local
> ... probably not the best solution, but now it works.

In /etc/modprobe.conf, do you have a line like:
  alias char-major-195* nvidia ?

In a nutshell, the Standardware "nvidia" X driver will attempt to access
/dev/nvidia*. Those are major device 195. That line in modprobe.conf
will tell the kernel to load that driver for support for those character
device files.

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Bryan J. Smith                                 b.j.smith@ieee.org 
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