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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 05:08:08PM +0000, Mathieu L wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> I noticed something weird related to Xorg and/or Nvidia drivers but I
> don't know if it's a bug and if yes, from each one is the bug coming
> from, so I'm asking for your advices.
> To be sure that everything was correctly done after I got this problem
> I dispelled both of them before retrying to test them. I firstly
> casted Xorg with -c -r, and then I did the same for nividia drivers.
> I launched immediatly X with a simple startx, everything went fine, I
> tested glxgears which gave me something like 1000fps.
> Then I rebooted and when I tried to startx X again I got the classical
> no screen found error (I know, I should have looked in the log to the
> the actual error) and I think it was because it didn't find some Gl
> modules. Note that I could still launch X if I switched back to nv
> instead of nvidia.
> Finally I just recasted again nvidia drivers and I could startx again
> with nividia without any problem (until next reboot I guess).
> 
> Any clue?
 
Are you using udev for /dev management? If so you _have_ to load the
nvidia module before starting X, just put it in /etc/modules.
With udev there's no support for autoloading modules when their
(non-existing) device nodes get accessed.

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