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nvidiactl: Load drm modules #17

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Expand Up @@ -48,6 +48,10 @@ nvver=$(readlink ${leglink})

rm -f /node/usr_share_mxgfx
ln -sf /usr/share/nvidia/${nvver} /node/usr_share_mxgfx

test -e /lib/modules/$kver/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/drm.ko && modprobe drm
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Passing the force switch --force to modprobe should also work, shouldn’t work. But it’s not important.

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But the man page says, "so using this option is dangerous unless you know what you are doing". So obviously this is not an option to us 🤣

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I just read up to dangerous and thought that’s good. ;-)

test -e /lib/modules/$kver/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_kms_helper.ko && modprobe drm_kms_helper

insmod ${leglink}/nvidia.ko

# Count the number of NVIDIA controllers found.
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