nvidia module without nvidia card

[Christoph Pleger]

Hello,

> But even if now it does not, there's still the question why the
> system keeps trying to load the module - I guess that just for hardware
> detection one unsuccessful attempt should be sufficient.

Well, obviously when X is started, something tries to load the nvidia.ko 
kernel module and though that fails in the end, lsmod shows for a short time 
that the module is loaded and in that short time, actions from /lib/udev/
rules.d/71-nvidia.rules  are executed. As some of them are actions to load 
other modules which depend on nvidia.ko, nvidia.ko is tried to be loaded once 
again, and once again actions from 71-nvidia.rules are executed, and so on, so 
that an endless loop is created.

I am still wondering about the first load attempt of nvidia.ko; this did/does 
not occur in older Ubuntu versions or in Debian versions.

Regards
  Christoph