03-04-2004, 00:34
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Greece
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Originally Posted by scarecrow
Somehow, I had managed to install and get the nvidia drivers running very nicely (used the nvidia-kernel*.rpm package from the powerpack edition) for some one week. However, today I was greeted by a fatal error console message while booting, and xserver just refused to load, as the nvidia driver "was not existing"! 
I performed via root console an uninstall "rpm -e nvidia*.rpm", rebooted, and the xserver loaded fine with the nv Xfree driver firmly working. I cannot understand what happened, but then whoever knows too much has to die!  |
Seems like a well-known issue on this pre-alpha release: you have to modprobe nvidia at every bootup.
Just put:
nvidia
in /etc/modprobe.preload
and it will be fine.
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