nvidia driver does not load via modprobe.conf

[Lars]

W. Guy Thomas wrote:

> On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 18:35 -0500, Jim Martin wrote:
>> Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
>> 
>> >Hi,
>> >
>> >I installed "NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run" today.
>> >
>> >The driver does not load upon reboot which leads to X failing.
>> >
>> >I noticed the following line in my modprobe.conf file:
>> >
>> >================ modprobe.conf snippet =========================
>> >alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394
>> >alias char-major-195* nvidia
>> >================================================================
>> >
>> >After running "modprobe nvidia" manually everything works.  However,
>> >next time I boot up it is gone again.
>> >
>> >
>> >Does anyone know the magic trick here?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >Thanks,
>> >Ernesto
>> >
>> >  
>> >
>> What I do is edit /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
>> where it says other="" I put other="nvidia" works for me,
>> 
>> also, if you are going to do that, you will need to either remove the
>> rhgb from the grub menu, or make a copy of your xorg.conf and copy it to
>> /etc/rhgb/xorg.conf and replace the area where it says nvidia with nv ,
>> this will allow for fedora graphics on boot, and will still use the
>> nvidia module for gdm and x.
>> 
>> Jim
>> 
> 
> or add '/sbin/modprobe nvidia' in /etc/rc.local (no quotes of course)
> 

if you're running udev, maybe the nvidia section of
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/udev helps too.

L

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