New nVidia Driver vd rivafb kernel module-SOLUTION

akonstam at trinity.edu akonstam at trinity.edu
Fri Jul 2 13:13:20 UTC 2004


On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 02:37:10PM +1000, Matt Hansen wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 04:22, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Do you both - Greg and you Aaron - use the rivafb Riva framebuffer
> > module to have framebuffer resolution on the console? I ask because I
> > got the warning too when installing the new NVidia module, though I do
> > not use the rivafb module, nor is it ever loaded.
> 
> I had this warning as well. It's just a precautionary measure and unless
> you use a nVidia Riva 128, TNT or TNT2 card (quite old!) then there's no
> chance of having this module loaded.
> 
> Matt 
What you say makes sense except unless I do a modprobe -r rivafb
before starting X it does not start.

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