TVH Posted March 17, 2004 Report Share Posted March 17, 2004 I wonder why sometimes, straight out of the blue, my NVIDIA driver gets lost. Say, I'm in text console and then I run startx, it runs fine, I exit the session, do something on the console again, then run startx....and sometimesit won't start, it only reports erorrs about NVIDIA module. Once it helped to get rid of the <dri> lines in etc/security/blahblahblah.perm file but now the /dev/nvidia* files are missing. It helps every time if I reinstall the driver. But it's then happening again after some time. What's wrong? I'm running MDK 10.0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nggalai Posted March 17, 2004 Report Share Posted March 17, 2004 (edited) For some weirdo reason, some people need to modprobe nvidia at every bootup, i.e. wherever-mdk-stores-what-to-modprobe-at-bootup scripts don't seem to work properly on a number of MDK10.0 CR systems. I have the problem myself, and it only went away when I re-compiled the kernel myself, then the NVIDIA module. No problems since. 93, -Sascha.rb Edited March 17, 2004 by nggalai Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted March 17, 2004 Report Share Posted March 17, 2004 Just put nvidia in /etc/modprobe.preload and you're fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLA21 Posted March 17, 2004 Report Share Posted March 17, 2004 Thanks aRTee! This one works also for me :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afrosheen Posted March 19, 2004 Report Share Posted March 19, 2004 I can confirm that this happens to me as well. It was working fine until I did an urpmi --auto-select to do a cooker update a few days ago. Since then I have to modprobe the driver at each boot. Doh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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