nvidia driver does not load via modprobe.conf

[Ernest L. Williams Jr.]

On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 02:09 +0100, Lars wrote:
> 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.
Yes, I tried that just now.   Works like a charm!!


Thanks,
Ernesto



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