I installed the nVidia 4363 drivers and the nvidia module does _not_ load on boot. I must 'init 3' and 'module nvidia' in order to 'init 5'. Is there a way to automate this? Should I add 'module nvidia' to /etc/init.d/boot.local ? -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org
On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 20:33, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
I installed the nVidia 4363 drivers and the nvidia module does _not_ load on boot. I must 'init 3' and 'module nvidia' in order to 'init 5'. Is there a way to automate this? Should I add 'module nvidia' to /etc/init.d/boot.local ?
try adding alias char-major-195 nvidia to /etc/modules.conf and run depmod -a. If you already have a line in there, say for NVdriver, change that one, you can't have two
* Anders Johansson
On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 20:33, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
I installed the nVidia 4363 drivers and the nvidia module does _not_ load on boot. I must 'init 3' and 'module nvidia' in order to 'init 5'. Is there a way to automate this? Should I add 'module nvidia' to /etc/init.d/boot.local ?
try adding
alias char-major-195 nvidia
to /etc/modules.conf and run depmod -a. If you already have a line in there, say for NVdriver, change that one, you can't have two
pat@wahoo:~> grep -i nvidia /etc/modules.conf # nVidia nforce chipset (network + audio) alias char-major-195 nvidia pat@wahoo:~> grep NV /etc/modules.conf pat@wahoo:~> su Password: ######## wahoo:/home/pat # depmod -a <short pause> wahoo:/home/pat # exit Now should boot ok, ?? nvidia line was already in /etc/modules.conf. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org
On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 21:25, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
pat@wahoo:~> grep NV /etc/modules.conf
How about "grep char-major-195 /etc/modules.conf" ?
Now should boot ok, ?? nvidia line was already in /etc/modules.conf.
It should. As soon as X tries to open a character device with major number 195, the kernel module loader *should* load the nvidia module. At least that's the theory. If it doesn't, check for error messages in /var/log/messages
* Patrick Shanahan
I installed the nVidia 4363 drivers and the nvidia module does _not_ load on boot. I must 'init 3' and 'module nvidia' in order to 'init 5'. Is there a way to automate this? Should I add 'module nvidia' to /etc/init.d/boot.local ?
'module nvidia' should read 'modprobe nvidia' -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org
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