ODD NVIDIA GUI booting problem.

[Harald Hoyer]

Jim Martin wrote:
> Greatings,
> 
> I am running Fedora Core 3 T1 with Kernel 2.6.8-1.541, I have a nVidia 
> 5200 video card, and am using NVIDIA-linux-x86-1.0-6111 drivers, I did 
> reinstsall the drivers for the new kernel as always, and my xorg.conf as 
> also been edited as needed for teh new driver.
> 
> 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?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> BaVinic
> 
> 

until the X server loads the module (which it should do)
try adding to /etc/rc.local:

/sbin/modprobe nvidia