Stephen Boulet said at �Re: [expert] 7.2 RC1 and Nvidia driver
installation�.
[2000-10-17 15:36]

> One other thing: are you doing this as root before starting X?
>
> rmmod agpgart
> modprobe agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1
> modprobe NVdriver
>
> I really have to learn how to have the computer do this automatically...
>

If you want drivers loaded at boot time (note: this only works from certain
version of initscripts, but as you say you have rc1...), just add them one
per line in /etc/modules, and in the right order, first agpgart and then
NVdriver.

If you also want some driver to load wirth some options, add them in
/etc/modules.conf as:

options NVdriver agp_try_unsupported=1

If you dont want to load all the drivers at boot time, you can have you
kernel
to auto-load them when you access the device for the first time. It is done
based in major-minor numbers of the devices, so as "when anything tries to
access
device with major number XX (which I know is a scsi card) load this module:
xxxxx".

For the nVidia drivers, that "magic numbber" is 195.
So add in your /etc/modules.conf a line such as:

alias char-major-195 NVdriver

Hope this helps you...

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