New nVidia Driver vd rivafb kernel module-SOLUTION

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 08:17:25AM -0500, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 04:35:31PM -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 akonstam at 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,
> > 
Is my face red and I am going to have to give back my sysadmin badge.
Computers are supposed to consistant but right now things are really
strange.
1. Yesterday the nvidia would not work without the modprobe -r rivafb.
Today it does.
2. lsmod |grep rivafb  gives no response.
3. But I can do: modprobe -r rivafb and get no error. If I do :
modprobe -r joe I get an immediate error that joe is not a loaded
module.
4. If I do modprobe rivafb then I can see the module with lsmod.

Go figure. I am confused.
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