NVidia 4349 driver on Dell 8200 Laptop

[RickW]

Hi, I am having a strange problem. I installed the lastest driver on Mandrake 9.1 on my Dell 8200 Laptop. At first I could not get X to start. I found that I had to put the line "insmod nvidia" as the first line after start in /etc/rc.d/init.d/dm.
Everything works fine but I would like to get this figured out and fixed.
Following is info on my system
GeForce4 440 Go
BIOS = 04.17.00.55.41
Driver 1.0-4349
Dell 8200 Laptop
Pentium 4 2.0GHZ
Mandrake 9.1

In /var/log/syslog, this line appears
Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o will taint the kernel: non-GPL license - NVIDIA

I think I have attched a file that has XFConfig-4, XFree86.0 and nvidia loader.log

[Andy Mecham]

Do you have
alias char-major-195 nvidiain your /etc/modules.conf file?

--andy

[Andy Mecham]

... or alias /dev/nvidia* nvidiaif you're using devfs.

--andy

[RickW]

I have alias char-major-195 nvidia

[RickW]

Andy, I changed the line in modules.conf to alias /dev/nvidia* nvidia, commented out the line in /etc/rc.d/init.d/dm and it worked.

Thanks a lot!!!!!

By the way, I really like the new loader. Great work.