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, > y Cool!! This worked for me. Why does this have to be done? Is it because the NVIDIA driver is proprietary and "taints" the kernel? > 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 >