Re: New nVidia Driver vd rivafb kernel module-SOLUTION

[Gene Heskett <gene heskett verizon net>]

On Friday 02 July 2004 09:17, akonstam trinity edu wrote:
>On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 04:35:31PM -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>> On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 akonstam trinity edu wrote:
>> > On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 03:15:52PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
>> > > Greg Swallow wrote:
>> > > >During installation of the new 4kstacks compatible nvidia
>> > > > driver, am informed it will not operate correctly with the
>> > > > kernel module rivafb loaded/active. Tried modprobe -r rivafb
>> > > > to remove, but still have garbage cursor.
>> > >
>> > > You need to reboot without the module loaded.
>> > >
>> > > Module unloading is now unsupported for the most part in 2.6
>> > > kernels.
>> >
>> > I made this work by what may be the kludge of the year. I placed
>> > the: modprobe -r rivafb
>> > as the next to last line in the rc.sysinit file. Ask me why not
>> > the last line? The last line looked like it should be last.
>> >
>> > Well nvidia module seems to work so unless someone has a better
>> > idea I leave it the way it is,
>>
>> Modifying rc.sysinit is dangerous as your mods will be nuked in an
>> upgrade.  Better is /etc/rc.local  or /etc/rc.modules.  The latter
>> is called early in the init process by rc.sysinit and the former
>> is the last thing done at startup.
>
>I will look again but I could not find anywhere that rc.local is
>called in the rc.sysinit script.

It isn't, thats the S99local in your /etc/rc.d/rc#runlevel.d directory 
that runs it.

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