On 7/13/05, Justin Conover <justin.conover(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 7/13/05, Mary Ellen Foster <mefoster(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/13/05, Justin Conover <justin.conover(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 7/11/05, Peter Jones <pjones(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> > > alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx
> >
> > So I'm wondering, when/if/did the modprobe.conf removed that entry or
> > what's going on with it?
>
> Wild guess -- do you have the livna nVidia kernel module installed on
> that machine? There was a brief bug in one update that would remove
> all aliases starting with a number of characters, including "a", when
> installed.
/me declines to comment on closed source products ;)
Actually, looking back in the thread, you posted an /etc/modprobe.conf
that included this line, so I suspect you are using livna's package:
alias char-major-195* nvidia
I note that your posted modprobe.conf also doesn't have a line like
alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
although it does have the "uhci-hcd" alias. This also looks like
something that the briefly buggy livna package would have broken.
Check if you have an /etc/modprobe.conf.backup-nvidia-glx and look in
it to see if there's anything else that might have got hosed.
On my machine, I noticed right away because it removed my "eth1" alias
and my wireless stopped working.
MEF
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