Load nvidia driver with udev

[sandro_mani]

Hello all,

I installed Fedora 7 on my laptop with 8600M GS graphiccard. During the installation process the graphiccard was not recognized, so I installed Fedora in text mode and then installed the livna driver. The installation was successful, the only problem I have now is that I always have to boot in runmode 3 and then switch manually to run mode 5 with init 5. If I set run mode 5 to default, I get a black screen instead of the booting-screen: my guess is that the nvidia driver is not yet loaded when udev starts.
I googled the topic and found to run

cp -a /dev/nvidia* /etc/udev/devices

and

chown root.root /etc/udev/devices/nvidia*

though the post I found referred to fedora core 3, and the indicated commands had no effect on my system.

Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks in advance!

Sandro

[leigh123linux]

try checking inittab ( make sure the line I have highlighted says 5 )

su
gedit /etc/inittab


#
# inittab This file describes how the INIT process should set up
# the system in a certain run-level.
#
# Author: Miquel van Smoorenburg, <miquels@drinkel.nl.mugnet.org>
# Modified for RHS Linux by Marc Ewing and Donnie Barnes
#

# Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
# 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
# 1 - Single user mode
# 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking)
# 3 - Full multiuser mode
# 4 - unused
# 5 - X11
# 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#
id:5:initdefault:

# System initialization.
si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit

l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 0
l1:1:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 1
l2:2:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 2
l3:3:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 3
l4:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 4
l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 5
l6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 6

# Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now

# When our UPS tells us power has failed, assume we have a few minutes
# of power left. Schedule a shutdown for 2 minutes from now.
# This does, of course, assume you have powerd installed and your
# UPS connected and working correctly.
pf::powerfail:/sbin/shutdown -f -h +2 "Power Failure; System Shutting Down"

# If power was restored before the shutdown kicked in, cancel it.
pr:12345:powerokwait:/sbin/shutdown -c "Power Restored; Shutdown Cancelled"


# Run gettys in standard runlevels
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4
5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5
6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6

# Run xdm in runlevel 5
x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon

[sandro_mani]

Thank you for the reply, but that does not work, as the nvidia driver is not loaded when the system switches to init 5 (just after loading udev) - at least, my guess ist that the driver ist not loaded and therefore the screen remains black.. What I need is a way to tell the system to load the nivida driver before or at the same time with udev, so that the graphical interface is available...