Steve Mowbray wrote:


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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

Now I am confused - this alias is not listed in the NVidia instructions and
in any case during install '/dev/nvidia0' and '/dev/nvidiactl' are created
okay - they disappear on reboot.

Can you explain what the effect of this alias is or why it is recommended -
thanks.


There should be an entry near the bottom of the /etc/modules.conf:-

alias char-major-195 nvidia

This is on a Suse 9.0 box so it might be slightly different on mandrake, the
modules.conf file is parsed on boot and all modules that are in there and
uncommented are prepared so that they can be used on demand ( not exactly how
it works but good enough explanation at the mo ).

If there is no entry in the modules.conf or it is commented out then the
system does not know about it and so can`t set it up and use it.

I would also suggest that you have a look on the nvidia forums ( from the
nvidia website ) there are a lot of very knowledgeable people there that may
have seen your problem before, it might be specific to mandrake or something,
suse was slightly different with the nvidia stuff.

HTH

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