On Sunday 03 April 2005 22:40, Christopher Hotchkiss wrote:
> On Apr 3, 2005 10:20 PM, Mario Lombardo <mario@alienscience.com> wrote:
> > Whenever I rebooted my box, I would lose my video driver:
> >
> > I noticed no 'nvidia" module with lsmod, so I did the following:
> >
> > modprobe nvidia
> >
> > and I got this as a result:
> >
> > nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
> > NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-6629 Wed Nov 3
> > 13:12:51 PST 2004
> >
> > startx works fine now.
> >
> > I noticed this in /etc/modules.conf:
> >
> > alias char-major-195 nvidia
> >
> > It sure looks like it would load, but why doesn't it? Should I have
> > something
> > else in /etc/modules.conf to have this load permanently? I'm using FC3
> >
> > /mario
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> Okay this is what I have in my /etc/modules.conf for nvidia:
> alias char-major-195 nvidia
> alias /dev/nvidiactl char-major-195
>
> Also be sure that the nvidia driver is built for your kernel.
>
> OT BTW: GMail just went crazy over April 1st! It doubled my disk space and
> they added a richedit control. YAY!!!
Yes, the module is built for my kernel. I didn't have that second line. I'm
wondering why the Nvidia script isn't doing all of this. I should probably
be hitting their site. I'm trying to find my local docs now. Do you have
anything else with nvidia in the /etc/modules.conf? For example,
options nvidia bigscreen
or something like that.
/mario
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