Re: Loading modules at startup, particullarly NVdrivers
Am Die, 2002-11-12 um 17.02 schrieb Thomas H. George,,,:
> 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.
depmod does not load modules. It just creates some sort of database of
which modules are present (and where they are IIRC).
> 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
You can run "modprobe NVdriver" (or insmod) from anywhere, as long as
the module is in /lib/modules/$YOUR_KERNEL/, and you ran "depmod -a"
after the installtion of it.
> bootup, however, the driver module is not installed and xdm fails.
>
> I would appreciate a little coaching to straighten this out.
You may want to try adding NVdriver to /etc/modules.
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