Hello, everyone.
As some of you may recall, I was having trouble with my nVidia drivers properly displaying on my screen. I was getting colored vertical lines on the right side, and a replication of the top 1/8th of my screen on the bottom. The image of the problem is located
here.
I found a solution to my problem on the nVidia news forum, which worked. The solution was to use the modprobe command to insert the nvidia driver into the kernel (that is, if I'm understanding the way modprobe is used). This would require me to go to a terminal screen prior to loading my GUI. The command sequence went like this:
rmmod nvidia
modprobe --first-time -v nvidia NVreg_Mobile=0
I could then exit from my root login and the KDM would automatically start up. I had to make a slight modification to my screen horizontal and vertical refresh rates in the xorg.conf file, but after that, it works fine.
The problem was that this method only worked for that session. If I shut down or rebooted, I'd have to repeat the procedure (except the part about modifying my xorg.conf file). So I went looking for a solution to make it automatic. I found one here.
The solution I found was to modify my lc.local file under /etc/lc.d. Except that I don't have that file. But I did find a boot.local file. I added the rmmod and modprobe commands in the sequence listed above. This solved my problem. I no longer have to do this whole thing manually.
However, to me this seems a bit messy. I can't help but shake the feeling that there's a better, more efficient, and maybe even more stable way of doing this. I'm just a noob to Linux, though. I could be wrong.
Anyone have any thoughts, comments, or suggestions?
Thanks.