[ATrpms-users] NVidia issues

[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 01:20:56PM +0000, Neil Bird wrote:
> Around about 09/03/08 09:43, Axel Thimm typed ...
> > The fix would be to blacklist all but the current nvidia module. The
> > problem is that the different nvidia module register into the
> > modules.{alias,pcimap,symbols} files, and then the PCI Id's trigger
> > whatever came first in the list.
> > If someone experiments with blacklisting and manages to get modules.*
> > behaving properly I'll be glad to stuff it into nvidia-graphics-switch.
> 
>    Whereabouts would that be?  I've fiddle with the blacklisting stuff 
> before (DVB cards) but not with much knowledge!

It would be in modprobe.conf on nvidia-*. The issue is that depmod
should only look at nvidia.ko and not all the other nvidia-*.ko
modules.

>    I couldn't figure out (for nVidia) which other file/config was affecting 
> things.  I.e., what's making the kernel (from PCI ID?) load whatever module? 
>   modprobe.conf is OK, and the udev stuff is version agnostic.

It's modules.pcimap. Which is constructed out of the *.ko present. If
they are blacklisted modules.pcimap won't point to them.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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