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 -- No Software Patents! http://nosoftwarepatents.com Get Firefox! http://spreadfirefox.com