Loading modules at startup, particullarly NVdrivers

["Thomas H. George,,," <georgeacct@spininternet.com>]

This is elementary I sure but I have never gotten it right.

My modules never loaded at startup.  I tried putting a script in rc2.d 
with /sbin/depmod but this has no effect - i.e. lsmod shows nothing.

Recently I installed a Geforce4 MX440 board.  With help from the list I 
got the proper tar files from Nvidia and, if I go to /lib/.../video and 
run insmod ./NVdriver and then xdm everything works perfectly.  On 
bootup, however, the driver module is not installed and xdm fails.

I would appreciate a little coaching to straighten this out.