[ale] Another nvidia question

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Wed May 27 08:55:03 EDT 2009


catch it before x starts with /sbin/lsmod | grep -i -c "nvidia"

If it returns a "0" no nvidia module for that kernel so change link to
vesa xorg.

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Pete Hardie<pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 07:28, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have not seen an auto-tool for that. But, a script in rc.local that
>> greps for the nvidia kernel module and sets a symlink to the correct
>> xorg.conf would be pretty easy.
>
> That sounds like a plan.  All I need is a way to detect the mismatch.
> I can see errors in
> Xorg.x.log when this happens.  Time to re-read the startup sequence docs.
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