restricted modules

[Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy]

Maybe I am mistaken about the causes, but still, my system couldn't load
the nvidia module until I manually ran depmod -a on it.
I will try to investigate the causes further and report any findings.

Matt Zimmerman wrote:

>On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 08:59:48PM -0400, Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote:
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>>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.
>>    
>>
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>The modules are built by rcS.d/S15linux-restricted-modules-common and then
>depmod is run at rcS.d/S20module-init-tools.
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