On Saturday 09 February 2002 08:21 pm, you wrote:
> >Level 3 that is.  I login from the console as normal (not root) user and
> > do "startx".  What I get is:
> >
> >(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVdriver kernel module!
> >(EE) NVIDIA(0):  *** Aborting ***
> >
> >It doesn't seem to be a permission problem since startx doesn't work for
> > root either.  The module just doesn't get loaded automatically, I have to
> > modprobe it.
>
> couldn't it be smth like " tainted module "  wich could be loaded only
> manualy, or may be /etc/modules

I always get the message when I modprobe it, yes... but it gets loaded anyway.
I've never had any problems with that module--until yesterday.  Maybe the new
devfsd is compiled more restrictive?

Rainer


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