On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 03:15:52PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > Greg Swallow wrote: > > > > >During installation of the new 4kstacks compatible nvidia driver, am > > >informed it will not operate correctly with the kernel module rivafb > > >loaded/active. Tried modprobe -r rivafb to remove, but still have > > >garbage cursor. > > > > You need to reboot without the module loaded. > > > > Module unloading is now unsupported for the most part in 2.6 kernels. > I made this work by what may be the kludge of the year. I placed the: > modprobe -r rivafb > as the next to last line in the rc.sysinit file. Ask me why not > the last line? The last line looked like it should be last. > > Well nvidia module seems to work so unless someone has a better idea I > leave it the way it is, Modifying rc.sysinit is dangerous as your mods will be nuked in an upgrade. Better is /etc/rc.local or /etc/rc.modules. The latter is called early in the init process by rc.sysinit and the former is the last thing done at startup. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
