which in fact makes me wonder: why is the nvidia driver loaded on a
system that doesn't have nvida graphics?
Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Antoon Huiskens wrote:
>
>> However, if I run a "modinfo", all I see is the vgatext driver loaded. (I
>> noticed that with nvidia cards, modinfo would show the nvidia driver).
>>
>> # modinfo | egrep 'nv|vga|rad'
>> 86 fffffffff7b05000 47a8 99 1 vgatext (VGA text driver v1.38)
>> 214 fffffffff7c670a8 b820 - 1 amsrc2 (Audio Sample Rate Conv. #2 1.3)
>> 217 fffffffff7f9b000 720178 54 1 nvidia (nvidia %I% May 23 2008 11:26:48)
>>
>> The output actually shows the nvidia driver loaded, but *not* the radeon or
>> radeonhd driver, which is what I would expect.
>>
>
> modinfo reports on kernel modules only - radeon & radeonhd are user-space
> shared
> objects loaded into the Xorg process, not the kernel, so modinfo will never
> show
> them. Look in /var/log/Xorg.0.log or run pldd on the Xorg process to see
> which
> modules it has loaded.
>
> nvidia provides both kernel & Xorg drivers for their videocards - for all
> other
> graphics cards, the kernel uses the generic vgatext driver instead.
>
>
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