On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 17:19 +0200, Harald Hoyer wrote:
until the X server loads the module (which it should do) try adding to /etc/rc.local:
/sbin/modprobe nvidia
BTW, I had to do this for the i915 module on my laptop too in order to get DRM to work, despite having an alias for char-major-226 (DRM major). X shouldn't need to manually load the module (or be in the business of loading kernel modules) should it?