FC3 and NVIDIA

[Andy Wallace]

On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 17:12, Gregory Gulik wrote:
> Or better yet, just do this once and not worry about it again:
> 
> # modprobe nvidia
> # cp -a /dev/nvidia* /etc/udev/devices
> # chown root.root /etc/udev/devices/nvidia*
> 
> This solved the problem for my Compaq R3000Z laptop.  Now even rhgb 
> works fine and I don't have to modprobe the nvidia driver in any startup 
> scripts.

Curious. This didn't work for me. However, having followed those steps I
then decided to add the nvidia driver to initrd. Now it works just fine.

I backed up the old initrd first just in case, then ran:

mkinitrd -f --with=nvidia initrd-2.6.9-1.667smp.img 2.6.9-1.667smp

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AndyW