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  • From: Casey Harkins <charkins AT upl.cs.wisc.edu>
  • To: Mads Laursen <dossen+sgl AT daimi.au.dk>
  • Cc: Grimoire <sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire] new init system
  • Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 06:18:48 -0500 (CDT)

I just added nvidia to /etc/modules, that's the lazy man's approach!

-casey


On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Mads Laursen wrote:

> On 23/08/03 20.32, Geoffrey Derber wrote:
> > Okay, I've more or less gotten the new init system up and running on my
> > system, but there are a few quirks I need help with.
> >
> > When I boot my system, even though it's in runlevel 5 for default, I
> > have to do the following things before I can get gdm to run.
> >
> > cd /etc/init.d/runlevels/%S/
> > ./keymap.sh start
> > ./hotplug start
> > modprobe nvidia
> >
> > neither init script, both of which are set as executable, are being run,
> > also, when I start X, the nvidia module isn't being loaded, I have to
> > manually load it prior to trying to start X, otherwise I get error
> > messages about not being able to load the nvidia module.
>
> I don't know about the init-scripts not being run (all of mine works)
> but taking a look at the solution to audio-permissions suggested in
> the LFS docs (http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/dsp_devfsd.txt)
> I did this to make 'nvidia' load:
>
> (pts/0)root@leela:~$ cat /etc/load_nvidia_mod
> #!/bin/sh
>
> mod=nvidia
>
> pres=`lsmod | grep "^$mod\ " | tr -d '[:space:]'`
> if [ -z $pres ]; then
> modprobe $mod
> fi
>
> (pts/0)root@leela:~$ tail -2 /etc/devfsd.conf
>
> LOOKUP nvidia.* EXECUTE /etc/load_nvidia_mod
>
> Just remember to chmod the script so it is executable.
>
> /dossen
> --
> "Nuclear war can ruin your whole compile."
> -- Karl Lehenbauer
>





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