I installed nvidia drivers but when I reboot X is messed up..

[kuber]

I installed the nvidia drivers for my card and all works well. But when I reboot X gets error messages. I reinstall the drivers and all is good again. So it seems like something is going on during the booting process that initializes a different video driver and gets rid of my old one. Any idea how to fix this?

Thanks,
Kuber

[pbharris]

hello,
i built my nvidia drivers from source and i needed to create a kernel driver for each version of my kernel (e.g. one for 2.2.18 and one for 2.4.3). in my /etc/modules.conf i have the line alias char-major-195 NVdriver which i am sure you have also.
paul

[kuber]

Yep... I have that.

[bdl]

You know, it's not necessary to reboot your system everytime you install or change something...having said that, it's probably the fact that you:

(choose one)

1) Have your kernel currently built to not dynamically load modules, therefore you must load the Nvidia module by hand each time you boot the system (or add kmod support).
2) Are having lib probs. Perhaps when you reboot, your lib cache is being overwritten with an incorrect path. Therefore, you best move the oldlibs and reinstall the new, check that the lib path is in your ld.so.conf and run 'ldconfig' again.

Verify these two things, let us know what you find. Luck!