nvidia module without nvidia card

[Christoph Pleger]

Hello,

>> can anybody tell me why the nvidia kernel module is loaded / tried to 
>> be
>> loaded even when the computer has no nvidia card and the nvidia module
>> is not listed in /etc/modules or /etc/modules-load.d/?
> 
> You might add one. This way, it will work.
> 
> This is how distros work. It's how hardware autodetection works. Try
> the driver; does it work? Yay. No? Move to the next one.

I am running pools with about 250 computers (using non-nvidia graphics) 
with older versions of Ubuntu and with Debian stable - as I can see in 
the syslog, none of these computers tried to load the nvidia module when 
starting X. And I am running some nvidia-graphic computers with exactly 
the same package list like the non-nvidia ones and the nvidia hardware 
is working successfully. So, I doubt very much that X does not have 
means to detect the graphcs hardware other than to really load the 
driver.

Regards
   Christoph