New nVidia Driver vd rivafb kernel module-SOLUTION

[Marc Williams]

On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 08:41, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> 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.

You're right, and I get the same behavior.  Fwiw, my new nvidia install
went fine from the start and I've never attempted to unload rivafb.