Re: nvida driver is not working after reboot
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 12:24:24PM +0200, Alexander Fieroch wrote:
> every time I reboot my computer (SID, kernel 2.6.13) xorg can not load
> the nvidia driver build with m-a.
> I have uninstalled the previously installed proprietary nvidia driver
> and build the nvidia driver with m-a. Then I've installed nvidia-glx and
> restarted gdm - xorg is working. After reboot the nvidia driver can not
> be loaded and xorg does not start but I can reinstall the previously
> build /usr/src/nvidia-kernel-2.6.13_1.0.7174-3_amd64.deb and xorg is
> working again.
> What's the problem?
You can always try adding 'nvidia' to /etc/modules
Then it WILL load the module on boot.
If you run udev or something else silly that makes /dev virtual then
there is likely nothing there for X to try and open to cause modprobe to
load the nvidia driver, while if you just load the nvidia driver, the
device nodes will appear and work just fine.
With a regular /dev it should just notify modprobe when something (X)
tries to open the /dev/nvidia* nodes and then modprobe loads the nvidia
module due to:
athlon:~# cat /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-kernel-nkc
alias char-major-195* nvidia
So of course if /dev/nvidia* doesn't exist (thanks to udev use or devfs)
then the alias may not help anything, and the module doesn't load.
Len Sorensen
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