[PLUG] nvidia weirdness

[Derek Loree]

On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 08:22, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Derek Loree wrote:
> 
> > This is one of those "can anyone throw me a clue" weirdnesses.
> 
>   ...
> 
> > Sooo... I reboot, just to see what would happen.  No X-server.  Execute
> > the above incantation and it fires up just fine.  This is getting
> > annoying (and long winded).
> 
> Derek,
> 
>   On various systems I've had processes fail to start upon booting. For
> example, on my Toshiba Portege networking would not come up. In these
> situations I put the initiation command at the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local (or
> whatever your local flavor calls it) and it works. It's not elegant but it's
> quicker than agonizing over the why and wherefore.

Rich,

I use gdm to start up the X-servers, and it is already at the end of the
startup order.  Just adding nvidia to /etc/modules seems to have fixed
it.

Thanks,

Derek Loree