Re: upgrade to 2.6.5 problem

[Keir Lawson <keir@thelawsons.plus.com>]

On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 16:03 -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
> On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 09:17:54AM +0100, Keir Lawson wrote:
> > the only line mentioning nvidia is this one:
> > alias char-major-195 nvidia
> 
> Did you load the module using insmod and then run update-modules? This
> *should* edit the /etc/modules.conf file for you, but you must load the
> module before running the program.
> 
> > but having rebooted with this line present the problem still persists. i
> > dont know exactly how to edit modules.conf and at the top it has a
> > warning about not editing it 
> 
> Mine has the following:
> 
> ### update-modules: start processing /etc/modutils/nvidia-kernel
> alias /dev/nvidia* nvidia
> alias char-major-195 nvidia
> ### update-modules: end processing /etc/modutils/nvidia-kernel
> 
> ### update-modules: start processing /etc/modutils/nvidia-kernel-2.4.20.basil
> alias /dev/nvidia* NVdriver
> alias char-major-195 NVdriver
> ### update-modules: end processing /etc/modutils/nvidia-kernel-2.4.20.basil
> 
> ### update-modules: start processing /etc/modutils/nvidia-kernel-nkc
> alias char-major-195 nvidia
> ### update-modules: end processing /etc/modutils/nvidia-kernel-nkc
> 
> There's only the one line that's different:
> 	alias /dev/nvidia* nvidia
> (the NVdriver is the old name that doesn't get used anymore.) But I've
> *never* had to edit this file by hand for Nvidia (yes for sound though).
> You can just edit it by hand...I had to for sound...and the world didn't
> collapse. :)
well i i dont seem to have a /etc/modutils/nvidia-kernel-2.4.20.basil or
equivalent file... perhaps this is the problem?

keir lawson