On Tuesday 24 June 2003 07:57 pm, Ben Anderson wrote:
> Hello,
> I've been running gentoo fine for about 7 months now. about a week
> ago I did:
> emerge -u world
> at which time KDE started acting up. I use KMail so I decided to
> switch to Mozilla mail becuase I didn't want to be tied to KDE in my
> plans to switch to fluxbox. Then, the next time I booted, X didn't
> start - NVDriver did not load. I had noticed that when I last
> emerged that the name of the module switched to nvidia, so I insmod
> nvidia, then started kdm, then everything worked ok. However, when I
> insmod nvidia - it starts with errors and says it will cause problems
> to the kernel. And now to the problem. Mozilla doesn't save it's
> profile. I've had to set up my mail twice. I'm sorry this email is
> so vague, but I really don't know where the problem is so let me list
> some:
>
> 1. I added nvidia to modules.autoload, however it fails to load upon
> startup
> 2. When I insmod nvidia, it starts with errors.
> 3. Mozilla's profile is deleting on me (I'm assuming since my
> customization is gone and my mail and mail accounts are gone)
> 4. My computer has frozen twice in the last week.
>
> Thanks so much to anyone who committed to reading this long winded
> cry for help,
> Ben Anderson
>
> I'll answer part 1 and hopefully someone else that actually uses
Mozilla can help with part 2.
The kernel warnings when you load nvidia are normal. It has something
to do with the fact that it's a 3rd party module and not GPL. I get it
all the time. It doesn't affect performance or stability.
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Regards, Ernie
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