On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 04:35:31PM -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 akonstam(a)trinity.edu 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.
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