Hi there,

I just installed the latest nVidia Detonator Linux driver. When
I rebooted the system to use the new driver the display manager
failed to start x. The logs say it has trouble finding the nvidia
kernel module, so I did 'lsmod' and confirmed that the module
wasn't loaded. I then did 'insmod nvidia', upon which insmod
reports that loading the nvidia module will taint the kernel
due to a non-GPL license, but that it is now loaded with some
warnings. After that I can happily 'startx', but when I shut
the computer down or reboot I need to insmod the module again
to get x going again. I'd prefer this to happen automatically
instead of me having to log in as root, insmod, then logout and
relogin as my normal self. Would it be safe to add the insmod
command to rc.local or similar? Or perhaps there is a program
I'm unaware of that can save the module settings, so that this
'dirty' piece of code can be loaded without question! :-)

Kind regards,

Chris Wilkinson, Christchurch.



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