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. > > L > > -- > No Software Patents! http://nosoftwarepatents.com > Get Firefox! http://spreadfirefox.com > > > interesting, let me give that a shot. it won't fix my resolution problem, but at least it's more elegant than the workaround I did. thanks. -- =Guy 19:34:46 up 1:04, 2 users, load average: 1.49, 1.55, 0.97