nVidia drivers conflict's with rivafb

jaakkop · 01-16-2005, 12:22 PM

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lp449 · 01-16-2005, 12:49 PM

Just keep clicking 'OK' or 'NEXT' ... I mean contiune installing the driver and don't pay attention to this conflict. for me it worked. However new versions of nvidias diver works worse than the previous ones. I use version: 1.0-4496 and can't say a bad word about it

heri0n · 01-16-2005, 04:18 PM

I think I had this problem too.
I you need to recompile your kernel and exclude the rivafb module

jaakkop · 01-17-2005, 06:26 AM

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Artanicus · 01-17-2005, 07:56 AM

you wont have a single problem as long as you dont actually load the riva module.. If your card is nvidia, I see no reason for you to load it anyways.. I had that announcement too, and no probs.. (:

No point in recompiling the kernel just to exclude one module you aint even using

jaakkop · 01-17-2005, 08:45 AM

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Artanicus · 01-17-2005, 08:50 AM

you dont need to unless you realy want to.. If you are using the bare.i kernel that came with the system, the module exists in your system, but isnt used, obviously, as you dont have a riva card as I understood..

Ofcourse if you are very sure you want to remove it, just locate it under /usr/lib/modules/kernel-version/ and delete it, but I _do not_ recommend it.

jaakkop · 01-17-2005, 09:16 AM

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Artanicus · 01-17-2005, 09:23 AM

to unload the module, you can type:

Code:

rmmod rivafb

You can see what modules are currently loaded with:

Code:

lsmod

leadazide · 01-17-2005, 09:23 AM

First, check if it is loaded:
lsmod | grep rivafb
If you see nothing, then it's not loaded and you don't have to worry about this. If you see something like

rivafb 3464348 26
then unload the module with
rmmod rivafb or
modprobe -r rivafb
(run rmmod and modprobe as root)

jaakkop · 01-17-2005, 09:33 AM

Thanks/Kiitos/Danke/Tack

brancalessio · 01-17-2005, 11:21 AM

Which kernel version? Is it the default one?

I ask you this since I can't have loaded the framebuffer specific for my graphics card.

What is the output of

lsmod

after X starts?

Quote:

Originally posted by jaakkop
I was installing nVidia drivers and then it said that nVidia drivers conflict with rivafb module (or something like that). What should I do?

H2O-linux · 01-17-2005, 11:29 AM

the rivafb is blacklisted in slack 10.0 and is not loaded.The nvidia installer recognizes it in the system and just throws out that warning when the drivers are installed.

jaakkop · 01-17-2005, 11:43 AM

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brancalessio · 01-17-2005, 11:48 AM

Probably you have not to rebuild your kernel, if it does not appear in lsmod. Can you post the output of lsmod?

Quote:

Originally posted by jaakkop
rivafb wasn't loaded but nvidia drivers still complain about rivafb. The Kernel is the default one. Should I recompile my kernel? And how do I do it?