NVIDIA disappearing

[TVH]

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

[nggalai]

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

[aRTee]

Just put

nvidia

in /etc/modprobe.preload

and you're fine.

[VILLA21]

Thanks aRTee!

This one works also for me :)

[afrosheen]

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!