NV driver Question

[Alan Cox]

On Mer, 2004-12-01 at 22:11, sam williams wrote:
> The question came up at work today and I said I ran the nv driver,
> however when I use an lsmod to display my loaded modules, I see
> nothing that looks remotely like NV or any type of framebuffer device.
> I'm sure the answer is obvious, but what is it. What mechanism does
> the xorg NV driver use and what should I expect to see in an lsmod
> listing?

It runs in user space like most X drivers. X's idea of a driver module
isn't the same as the kernel module. Same basic idea but one is in user
space and one in kernel space.