Re: Getting nVidia to load

2003-01-03 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 08:02:56AM -0600, Larry Hunsicker wrote: > I am not sure why, in my setup, the nvidia kernel "make install" didn't > add the line to /etc/modules. It didn't because /etc/modules is Debian-specific. -- Marc Wilson | Immature artists imitate, mature artists steal. [EM

Re: Getting nVidia to load

2003-01-02 Thread Bill Moseley
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Larry Hunsicker wrote: > I am not sure why, in my setup, the nvidia kernel "make install" didn't > add the line to /etc/modules. The nVidia folks may not have wanted to > force this at boot up. But their documentation probably should note > that one needs to add this line to

Getting nVidia to load

2003-01-02 Thread Larry Hunsicker
Thanks to Sean Finney and Bill Moseley; Indeed, adding the single line "nvidia" to the /etc/modules file gets the module loaded at boot time. An alternative, if one only wants to load nvidia at certain times, is to run: /sbin/modprobe nvidia I am not sure why, in my setup, the nvidia kernel