restricted modules

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Tue Sep 27 20:07:37 CDT 2005


On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 08:59:48PM -0400, Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote:
> One of the strange things happened to my breezy (installed from colony 4
> from scratch). Possibly this is a known bug, but I couldn't find it.
> The nvidia modules are supposed to be dynamically built on startup, and
> they are (I have the module in the volatile directory). Unfortunately it
> looks
> that depmod is called before the modules are generated, so modprobe
> cannot find them. Running depmod and modprobe manually after boot
> results in the module being successfully loaded. I hope that this issue
> will be fixed by the time breezy is released. Thanks to all the
> developers for great work.

The modules are built by rcS.d/S15linux-restricted-modules-common and then
depmod is run at rcS.d/S20module-init-tools.

-- 
 - mdz



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