TVH 0 Report post 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nggalai 0 Report post 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
aRTee 0 Report post Posted March 17, 2004 Just put nvidia in /etc/modprobe.preload and you're fine. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VILLA21 0 Report post Posted March 17, 2004 Thanks aRTee! This one works also for me :) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
afrosheen 0 Report post 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
