Re: I finally made the switch! I think...

[Kyle Pointer <kapointer@charter.net>]

Ken Keefe wrote:

>So, I have a new laptop and I have struggled with mandrake 10.1 to get
>it working. I was getting kernel panics because of a wireless driver I
>was trying to use. While I was struggling with this, I installed Fedora
>3 on my new PC at work. I am impressed with it so far. To make a long
>story short, I am going to give Fedora a try on my laptop.
>
>I have already installed it and I struggled for a little while getting X
>to work (I have one of those wide aspect ratio laptops). I finally got
>it to work after installing the latest nVidia drivers. Now there is only
>one problem, how do I load the nvidia module into the kernel at boot
>time? In mandrake, I put whatever modules that I wanted automatically
>loaded into /etc/modprobe.preload. How does it work in Fedora? 
>
>Thanks,
>Ken
>
>I'll keep you guys posted as to how the little experiment works. I will
>say this so far however. I am impressed with Fedora because it seems to
>be a much more polished, coherent product. Mandrake was very easy for
>the average joe to install and use, but it was too hodgepodge... I am
>trying to be more succinct, but I guess I don't know how to explain
>it...
>
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Edit the file /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.* ( * is your kernel 
number )
Then in that file add the name of the nvidia module, and it *should* 
load at boot time. :) Hope that works. :) Fedora has always been nice to 
me, and although I use gentoo Its the one I suggest people to use. My 
only problem with it is its lack of decent movie and audio file 
decoders. Although that one can always be fixed with freshrpms. :)
-- Kyle Pointer

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