On Wednesday December 10 at 03:24pm Haim Ashkenazi <haim@babysnakes.org> wrote: > I've just bought a new GeForce 5600 (Gainward Ultra 780 TV/DVI) and > for that occasion I've upgraded my nvidia drivers to 4496-10. after > upgrading, X wouldn't start (error loading 'nvidia') unless I modprobe > 'nvidia' manually, and then it loads, but with an error: > > devfs_register(nvidiactl): could not append to parent, err: -17 > devfs_register(nvidia0): could not append to parent, err: -17 > > I've googled for it but only found some kernel mailing list entries > which I didn't understand. as a workaround I've added nvidia to > '/etc/modules' but I was wondering if this problem can be solved. > > kernel: 2.4.21 I don't think X is supposed to load the module. I've always used 'modconf' to select it, which automagically adds an entry to /etc/modules. jkoenig@note:~$ dmesg | grep nvidia 0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 nvidia.o Kernel Module 1.0-4496 Wed Jul 16 19:03:09 PDT 2003 jkoenig@note:~$ uname -a Linux note 2.4.23 #1 Mon Dec 1 22:20:24 EST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux -- -johann koenig Now Playing: The Mountain Goats - Going to Cleveland : Bitter Melon Farm Today is Pungenday, the 51st day of The Aftermath in the YOLD 3169 My public pgp key: http://mental-graffiti.com/pgp/johannkoenig.pgp
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