"baskitcaise" wrote in message
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sid wrote:

Steve Mowbray wrote:



On reboot - X fails to start - nvidia module is not loaded and the
/dev/nvidia* device files are missing.

Check to see if the line "alias /dev/nvidia* nvidia" is in your
/etc/modules.conf

hth

If you have probs with it not starting try changing the Option "NvAGP" "?"
to
Option "NvAGP" "1" in the XF86Config ( not sure on mandrake might be
XF86Config-4 ) file in /etv/X11/ this will use the Nvidia gart built into
the
modules instead of the kernel one.

Thanks for that tip - it has fixed the minor problem (error msg localhost
kernel : 0 : NVRM : AGPGART : unable to retrieve symbol table) however the
main problem of failing on reboot remains.

I read through this driver config option and assumed that the default value
of 3 (try AGPGART then NVIDIA-AGP) would have been sufficient - could be
that it is and the message was reporting the AGPGART try failure but then
getting the NVidia internal support okay.



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