On Friday 02 July 2004 09:17, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 04:35:31PM -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: >> 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. > >I will look again but I could not find anywhere that rc.local is >called in the rc.sysinit script. It isn't, thats the S99local in your /etc/rc.d/rc#runlevel.d directory that runs it. -- Cheers, Gene There are 4 boxes to be used in defense of liberty. Soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order, starting now. -Ed Howdershelt, Author Additions to this message made by Gene Heskett are Copyright 2004, Maurice E. Heskett, all rights reserved.
