On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 12:03:36PM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 10:56, 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.
> 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.
> Well nvidia module seems to work so unless someone has a better idea I
> leave it the way it is,
I have a better idea:
cat "install rivafb /bin/true" >> /etc/modprobe.conf
This will stop it from loading at all.
Ok I will try that but I am not sure why that works.
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