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Ask the Penguin! NVidia Drivers

Mon, 03/07/2005 - 12:35 — kebernet

Ok, I know one of you has to have dealt with this:

I am now running Fedora Core 3 on my game box. I am going to do a viability run at Cedega/WineX for gaming, since it now seems to be at the curve line on games support.

Anyway, I downloaded and installed the Nvidia-made video card drivers for the Leaf Blower, and everthing works great, except...

The NVidia kernel module doesn't get loaded at startup, for some reason. When GDM tries to come up, it just blew up until I logged in as root and did a modprobe nvidia, then everything worked fine.

So, how do I tell a dynamic module to load itself up? Ill be damned if I could figure it out. I "solved" the problem by putting a "modprobe nvidia" in my rc.sysinit, but that is ugly. There has to be a better way..

Beuller?

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Mon, 03/07/2005 - 14:39 — atrox (not verified)

RE: Ask the Penguin! NVidia Drivers

/etc/modules.conf

Mon, 03/07/2005 - 15:16 — cooper (not verified)

RE: Ask the Penguin! NVidia Drivers

Well, modules.conf isn't there anymore. :/ It has be replaced by modprobe.conf, which only has like 3 things you can do with it:

Alias,
Specificy a custom script for Install
Set execute options.

None of which allow me to designate that this should be always loaded.

Mon, 03/07/2005 - 16:57 — atrox (not verified)

RE: Ask the Penguin! NVidia Drivers

Yes sorry, kernel 2.6 uses modprobe.conf (which replaces modules.conf which in the Red Hat world replaced conf.modules).

I think the new way is to use "install" in modprobe.conf if the module is not recognized and loaded automatically. You can still tell a module to load in modprobe.conf using install (see the man page).

However, thats not elegant either, the real issue is why doesnt the autoloader catch it and load it. I have never had the pleasure of getting into the 2.6 autoloader and where it gets symbols and such to know what to load. No idear.

I am sure some research though would likely turn it up pretty quick, I will look into this tomorrow or sometime soon when I have some more time.

Mon, 03/07/2005 - 19:58 — StuP (not verified)

RE: Ask the Penguin! NVidia Drivers

are you using hotplug or discover? or perhaps kudzu? Certainly, hotplug has a means or preseeding any modules that aren't automagically loaded by other ways (on a debian box, you add STATIC_MODULE_LIST="nvidia" or whatever to /etc/default/hotplug).

There should be similar methods for the other options/distros.

You could also try telling kudzu or whatever to try using that module to support that hardware -- e.g. hotplug looking after my PCI events will automatically try to load the proprietry radeon driver (fglrx) if I don't blacklist it.

Mon, 03/07/2005 - 20:41 — cooper (not verified)

RE: Ask the Penguin! NVidia Drivers

Thanks. I will try addind that to my hotplug config.

I honestly have no clude at all about configuring kudzu. :/

Tue, 03/08/2005 - 09:08 — atrox (not verified)

RE: Ask the Penguin! NVidia Drivers

Man I havent had to get into this yet but I am learning about udev and the new uses of hotplug (2.6 stuff) just by researching your crap ;).

http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/udev/

Might make sure you have the latest udev (must update after install) and take a a look at the section "Current problems on Fedora . . . Nvidia" . . .

Tue, 03/08/2005 - 09:41 — cooper (not verified)

RE: Ask the Penguin! NVidia Drivers

THANK YOU. Man, You know I kept looking at all these udev scripts and for the life of me couldnt figure out what the hell they were doing.

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