ODD NVIDIA GUI booting problem.

[Brian Gerst]

Aaron Gaudio wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 17:19 +0200, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> 
> 
>>until the X server loads the module (which it should do)
>>try adding to /etc/rc.local:
>>
>>/sbin/modprobe nvidia
>>
>>
> 
> 
> BTW, I had to do this for the i915 module on my laptop too in order to
> get DRM to work, despite having an alias for char-major-226 (DRM major).
> X shouldn't need to manually load the module (or be in the business of
> loading kernel modules) should it?
> 
> 

No.  The idea behind udev is that it is supposed to scan all the devices 
present at boot time and create device nodes (aka Cold Plugging).  The 
current scripts only scan certain classes of devices though, and video 
is not included.

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				Brian Gerst