On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 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. rc.local is called via the SysV startup mechanism. If you look in /etc/rc5.d (e..g.), you'll find 99local, which links to /etc/rc.local -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
