NVIDIA Again
Nifty Hat Mitch
mitch48 at sbcglobal.net
Fri Nov 12 18:00:45 UTC 2004
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 04:46:58PM -0600, Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 09:48, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>> On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Peter wrote:
>>> Am Mi, den 10.11.2004 schrieb Matthew Saltzman um 15:50:
>>>> BTW, a better place for module insertion is /etc/rc.modules....
....
>> # Load modules (for backward compatibility with VARs)
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> if [ -f /etc/rc.modules ]; then
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> /etc/rc.modules
>>
>> The file doesn't exist by default, but if you create it, it will get run.
.....
> This says that if that file exists it should get run, but is only there
> for compatibility with certain vendors and customized software.
>
> The FC2 install hardly ever needs it, and I surely don't with my nvidia
> driver.
>
> The xorg.conf file tells X to load the module so it does not need to be
> loaded at anytime other than when X starts.
The xorg.conf part is important! Consider a bad module
that causes the system to lock up.
If the module is loaded very early without regard to run level then an
unstable module can present the user with a difficult situation. If
we stick to letting xorg load the module at run level 5 then the
system admin can fix things in run level 3 because xorg is not active.
Anyhow just thinking with my fingers on the keyboards....
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