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  • From: Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>
  • To: discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] NVIDIA_driver
  • Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 17:56:38 -0700

On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 03:40:04PM +0200, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 06:45:35PM +0800, Craig Dyke wrote:
> > Hopefully an easy question.
> >
> > I am using udev xfree86 4.4.0 and latest NVIDIA_driver spells.
> >
> > I find that whenever I try to go to runlevel 5 I have to first re-cast
> > NVIDIA_driver
> > otherwise it doesn't seem to load and xfree won't start :(
> >
> > I have the udev.missing file with halh-dozen or so lines referring to
> > nvidia and setting the attributes.
> >
> > Can someone tell me what else I need to do or what I have missed?
>
> put 'nvidia' in /etc/modules.
>

This question comes up often enough that the spell POST_INSTALL should
make sure it's got at least once copy of 'nvidia' in /etc/modules.
Either that or never insert the module during cast so that users get to
insert the module on their own terms.

Seth

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