ODD NVIDIA GUI booting problem.
Harald Hoyer
harald at redhat.com
Mon Sep 13 15:19:01 UTC 2004
Jim Martin wrote:
> Greatings,
>
> I am running Fedora Core 3 T1 with Kernel 2.6.8-1.541, I have a nVidia
> 5200 video card, and am using NVIDIA-linux-x86-1.0-6111 drivers, I did
> reinstsall the drivers for the new kernel as always, and my xorg.conf as
> also been edited as needed for teh new driver.
>
> however ever since I updated to 2.6.8-1.541 I have been having an odd
> problem booting, If I try to boot at run level 5 (GUI) it cannot find
> the screens and errors out. if I run init 3, reinstall the drivers, then
> run init 5 I can run and log in as always. it seems like somethings gets
> lost during reboot or shut down, and I cannot figure out what. This
> error did not happen before .541
>
> All I get from the log file is that no screens were found. Anyone else
> having this problem?
>
> Thank you.
>
> BaVinic
>
>
until the X server loads the module (which it should do)
try adding to /etc/rc.local:
/sbin/modprobe nvidia
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