RE: [debian-user] Re: Modprobe under kernel 2.6
George Cristian Birzan wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 12:31:38PM -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
> > Does anybody know why some modules in /etc/modules appear
> to be ignored?
> >
> > I have always need "hid" in /etc/modules to make my usb
> > mouse work, and now
> > under 2.6 I also need to modprobe psmouse and intel-agp to
> > get into X (kdm). I
> > added them to /etc/modules but nothing seems to be
> > modprobed at start up. In
> > fact the only thing that is in /etc/modules that is probed
> > is ide-scsi - which
> > I'd rather _wasn't_ done under 2.6 but I need it for 2.4
>
> You should look into using /etc/mod{probe,ules}.conf. man
> update-modules
> Take a look at /usr/share/doc/modutils/examples/versioned, that's a
> script that allows you to specify modules for kernel
> versions/families.
I'm afraid that wasn't really helpful. It turns out ide-scsi was being
loaded by discover, and I suppressed it there. I didn't find anything that
would help me understand why none of the other modules in /etc/modules are
ever loaded.
On Friday, I upgraded hotplug. I can't imagine why it would make a
difference, but discover now finds my i810 components and loads the
intel-agp, so at least I don't have to do that part. It also loads i810-tco
and tries i810-rng (no module available for that, no problem). Still,
nothing loads psmouse, but it's much faster to get into X by booting into
single-user mode and typing: modprobe psmouse; exit
than it was under 2.4.x kernels which only _sometimes_ seemed to enable the
synaptics touchpad, and if it didn't, X hung at startup.
--
derek
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