> This is elementary I sure but I have never gotten it right. > > My modules never loaded at startup. I tried putting a script in rc2.d > with /sbin/depmod but this has no effect - i.e. lsmod shows nothing. > > Recently I installed a Geforce4 MX440 board. With help from the list I > got the proper tar files from Nvidia and, if I go to /lib/.../video and > run insmod ./NVdriver and then xdm everything works perfectly. On > bootup, however, the driver module is not installed and xdm fails. > > I would appreciate a little coaching to straighten this out. >
try adding a line containing just "NVdriver" to /etc/modules (as root) # echo NVdriver >> /etc/modules if you compile your nvidia drivers The Debian Way (using make-kpkg), a file /etc/modutils/nvidia-kernel-<kernel-version> is created containing the following two lines: alias /dev/nvidia* NVdriver alias char-major-195 NVdriver this also works (after running update-modules) greetz, Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
