On Sat, 26 Feb 2005, Fredrik Klasson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > | I have always autoloaded the nvidia _kernel_ module, under Slackware > | before Gentoo. The splash screen always came up as the X server > | loaded the _X_ module, which also is called nvidia. > | > | I don't know why anyone should not just list "nvidia" in the autoload > | file and forget about it, other than the K00Lness factor of doing that > | being low. :) > | > uhm? therer are 2 (two) nvidia modules? Interresting, I thought there > only was one - which the kernel loads (and X uses)... > I guess it'll better put it in the autoload list then... But what but > really, what are the advantages of having it(the kernel module) > autoloaded rather than loaded/modprobed by X?
I didn't know it was possible to get X to load the kernel module. Is this actually built into the X initialization, or is it just some modprobe/rmmod pair somewhere in the startx script? In my machine at least, if I remove the nvidia module before starting X, then X doesn't start anymore ;) Cheers, Ian -- [email protected] mailing list
