nVidia module and Red Hat

[Rick Stevens]

On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 11:52 -0700, Chen, Douglas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have one question regarding nVidia graphic card on one of the Linux
> machine running Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 3 (Taroon Update
> 2).
> 
> Everything was OK until the system crashed and rebooted but failed to
> start X window login session. The monitor keeps on toggling between
> nVidia logo and message
> 
> earth kernel: NVRM: restoring bus mastering! (nv.c:1658)
> 
> I can only remote login and this is what the message file has recorded
> 
> May 15 09:38:30 earth modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
> char-major-10-134 
> May 15 09:38:31 earth kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device
> 05:00.0 to 64 
> May 15 09:38:31 earth kernel: NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86_64 NVIDIA
> Kernel Module  1.0-6105  Wed Jun 16 11:57:38 PDT 2004
> 
> May 15 09:38:31 earth insmod: Warning:
> loading /lib/modules/2.4.21-15.EL/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o will
> taint the kernel: non-GPL license - NVIDIA
> 
> May 15 09:38:31 earth insmod:   See
> http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about tainted
> modules 
> May 15 09:38:31 earth insmod: Module nvidia loaded, with warnings 
> May 15 09:38:41 earth kernel: NVRM: restoring bus mastering!
> (nv.c:1658) 
> May 15 09:38:41 earth gdm[5732]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X
> error - Restarting :0 
> May 15 09:38:41 earth modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
> char-major-10-134 
> May 15 09:38:51 earth gdm[5737]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X
> error - Restarting :0
> 
> 
> Can anyone tell me what went wrong and how I can fix it. Thank you
> very much for your help in advance.

Looks like you lost the device node for the apm_bios.  To recreate that
device node, use :

	# mknod apm_bios c 10 134

Then reboot and see if that works.  It'd also be nice if you could post
your /etc/modules.conf file.

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