On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 16:03 -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 09:17:54AM +0100, Keir Lawson wrote: > > the only line mentioning nvidia is this one: > > alias char-major-195 nvidia > > Did you load the module using insmod and then run update-modules? This > *should* edit the /etc/modules.conf file for you, but you must load the > module before running the program. > > > but having rebooted with this line present the problem still persists. i > > dont know exactly how to edit modules.conf and at the top it has a > > warning about not editing it > > Mine has the following: > > ### update-modules: start processing /etc/modutils/nvidia-kernel > alias /dev/nvidia* nvidia > alias char-major-195 nvidia > ### update-modules: end processing /etc/modutils/nvidia-kernel > > ### update-modules: start processing /etc/modutils/nvidia-kernel-2.4.20.basil > alias /dev/nvidia* NVdriver > alias char-major-195 NVdriver > ### update-modules: end processing /etc/modutils/nvidia-kernel-2.4.20.basil > > ### update-modules: start processing /etc/modutils/nvidia-kernel-nkc > alias char-major-195 nvidia > ### update-modules: end processing /etc/modutils/nvidia-kernel-nkc > > There's only the one line that's different: > alias /dev/nvidia* nvidia > (the NVdriver is the old name that doesn't get used anymore.) But I've > *never* had to edit this file by hand for Nvidia (yes for sound though). > You can just edit it by hand...I had to for sound...and the world didn't > collapse. :) well i i dont seem to have a /etc/modutils/nvidia-kernel-2.4.20.basil or equivalent file... perhaps this is the problem?
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