New nVidia Driver vd rivafb kernel module-SOLUTION

akonstam at trinity.edu akonstam at trinity.edu
Thu Jul 1 20:16:35 UTC 2004


On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 12:03:36PM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 10:56, akonstam at 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.
> 
> > 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.
> > Well nvidia module seems to work so unless someone has a better idea I
> > leave it the way it is,
> 
> I have a better idea:
> 
> cat "install rivafb /bin/true" >> /etc/modprobe.conf
> 
> This will stop it from loading at all.
> 
Ok I will try that but I am not sure why that works.
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