On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 09:17:57 -0400, Jim Martin <bavinic(a)comcast.net> wrote:
however ever since I updated to 2.6.8-1.541 I have been having an
odd
problem booting, If I try to boot at run level 5 (GUI) it cannot find
the screens and errors out. if I run init 3, reinstall the drivers, then
run init 5 I can run and log in as always. it seems like somethings gets
lost during reboot or shut down, and I cannot figure out what. This
error did not happen before .541
All I get from the log file is that no screens were found. Anyone else
having this problem?
The 541 kernel has some sort of issue with modprobing kernel drivers.
Its not just the nvidia driver. My 541 kernel doesn't correctly
modprobe the sg driver either, which my scanner needs. But if i
manually modprobe the missing drivers things work.
So instead of reinstalling the driver... just do this from the console as root.
modprobe nvidia; init 3; init 5; exit
Or add a modprobe nvidia statement in rc.local as a workaround.
-jef