[mythtv-users] Nvidia / Rivafb Unloading

[Cory Megitt]

Sounds easy enough ... How can you tell if the drivers are being loaded
properly?
 

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of David George
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 9:12 AM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Nvidia / Rivafb Unloading

On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Cory Megitt wrote:

>  Hi All;
>
> I am running Fedora Core 2 and installed the 6106 drivers for the 
> Gforce 5200.  I get an error when installing (rivafb is loaded and 
> must be removed).  I'm not sure how to do this..
>
> Can someone point me in the right direction.   I'm a little new at loading
/
> unloading modules or recompiling the kernel.

Actually it says that the nVidia driver conflicts with and to make sure it
doesn't get loaded.  At least on my system it doesn't automatically load.
However after a bit of googling a friend and I found that the rivafb module
can be disabled on bootup without needing to recompile the kernel removing
the rivafb module.

I am also running FC2 (on my test system with nVidia 6106) and added the
following to the end of the kernel line in my /boot/grub/grub.conf:

video=rivafb:off

Make sure you modify the section you are actually booting from if you have
multiple kernels installed.

Here is the whole section on mine:

title Fedora Core (2.6.7-v4l2-pcHDTV)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.7-v4l2-pcHDTV ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
video=rivafb:off
        initrd /initrd-2.6.7-v4l2-pcHDTV.img

HTH,
David

P.S.  My system did work fine without adding this and rebooting.  I only
added it to be anal ;)