getting nvidia drivers to load automatically..

chatgris · Guru Joined: 14 Oct 2002 Posts: 383 Location: Canada

Ok, First off, I don't know which forum this really belongs in being torn between Hardware, Multimedia and Desktop environment, but I chose here since in my eyes NVidia drivers are very closely related to X..

Anyways, a few days ago I updated and stupidly overwrote my modules.autoload file.

In there I remember seeing something about nvidia...

Now, I have since unmerged and emerged nvidia kernel and glx, and I haven't been able to get them to load automatically.. every time I have to manually run insmod NVdriver

How can I get the NVidia module automatically loaded?

Before running this into dups, I read posts where some people put modprobe NVdriver, others with insmod driver in their modules.autoload, but I remember seeing something kinda charset thing which didn't look like jsut commmands to run in modules.autoload and I'm wondering what's the *right* way to do this.

Josh.
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BillyD · Guru Joined: 05 May 2002 Posts: 323 Location: Australia

I am pretty sure all you need to add in your modules.autoload file is NVdriver for it to load up on startup.

Check out the Gentoo Linux Desktop guide, and the Nvidia Troubleshooting to get yourself squared away on how it all works.
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blofeld · n00b Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 36 Location: Vienna

If you've emerged nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx there should be
a /etc/modules.d/nvidia

The contents should be

alias char-major-195 NVdriver
alias /dev/nvidiactl char-major-195

probably if you've tried the 4191 drivers and then went back to the 3123 drivers the line would say

alias char-major-195 nvidia

change this back to NVdriver and run update-modules.

hth

chatgris · Guru Joined: 14 Oct 2002 Posts: 383 Location: Canada

I already had

alias char-major-195 NVdriver

but not

alias /dev/nvidiactl char-major-195

As soon as KDE is done compiling (even though the words soon and KDE compile should never appear in the same sentence :wink:

) I'll try restarting and see if that helped.
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nalin · Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2003 5:19 am Post subject:

I had the same problem, screwed some things up, reinstalled a bunch of crap and suddonly nvidia required modprobe NVdriver or x wouldnt launch.

The fix worked great for me, thx

drakonite · l33t Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 768 Location: Lincoln, NE

I just started having the same problem and I'm almost wondering if X has problems about the warning of the nvidia module tainting the kernel...
Is there anyway to turn those messages off? I don't care if it fixes this or not they are just annoying and I really don't care

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chatgris · Guru Joined: 14 Oct 2002 Posts: 383 Location: Canada

I don't think you can turn the error messages off at all..

In addition, I remember reading somewhere that the 2.6 series of kernels were not going to allow "tainted" modules to access the new high performance internals.
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drakonite · l33t Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 768 Location: Lincoln, NE