[plug] Modprobe question

[Chris Griffin]

Thanks for all the suggestions folks. I am waiting to test it all out,
the system in question is my download system and it has been busy.
Again, thanks to all.

Regards,
Chris Griffin

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 14:32:51 +0800, Jim Householder
<nofixed at westnet.com.au> wrote:
> Carl Gherardi wrote:
> > On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:06:05 +0800, Mike Holland
> > <myk.list at westnet.com.au> wrote:
> >
> >>Brad Campbell wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>>which the system seems happy about.  And yet I still have to do the
> >>>>"modprobe advansys" command after booting.
> >>>>Is there something I am missing to make this all happen automagically?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Don't know about Fedora. In debian I'd
> >>>echo advansys >> /etc/modules
> >>>
> >>>Brad
> >>
> >>With a 2.6 kernel, you might want:
> >>
> >># /etc/modprobe.preload: kernel modules to load at boot time.
> >>
> >>Of course, you could always add the "modprobe advansys" command to
> >>/etc/rc.local .
> >>
> >
> >
> I'm using MDK 10.1, and have found the following:
> /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit invokes /etc/rc.d/rc.modules
>     which invokes modprobe for each module name found in /etc/modules.
> 
> In my case, /etc/modules contains bttv and nvidia.
> 
> The comment in rc.sysinit indicates invoking rc.modules is for backward
> compatibility with VARs, what ever that is, which says to me it is
> subject to change.
> 
> HTH
> Jim
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