On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 18:36, Ross Drummond wrote:
> When I use the startx command it bombs out, with the following message;
>
> (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
> (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
> (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
> (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
> (--) NVIDIA(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xD4000000
> (--) NVIDIA(0): MMIO registers at 0xD6000000
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module!
> (EE) NVIDIA(0):  *** Aborting ***
> (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
> (II) UnloadModule: "vgahw"
> (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a
> (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
>
> When I use;
>
> insmod nvidia  or,
> modprobe nvidia
>
> the module loads with a kernel taint warning and startx works with the
> appropriate nvidia splash screen.
>
> Contents of modules.conf are;
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] user]$ cat /etc/modules.conf |grep nvidia
> alias /dev/nvidia*   nvidia
>
> Why wont the nvidia module load automatically?

is it in /etc/modules.conf (or conf.modules, or whatever the damn thing is 
called?)

>
> Cheers Ross Drummond

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