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On Sunday 19 Jun 2011 22:06:12 walt wrote: |
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> For some reason I've never before had to fool with update-modules |
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> because all my needed kernel modules just load by magic when I boot. |
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> Now I'm fiddling with a virtualbox gentoo guest on a gentoo host, |
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> and the vboxvideo kernel module is not loading 'by magic' in the |
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> guest machine. |
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> So, how to do it? When I edit /etc/conf.d/modules to include the |
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> vboxvideo module and run update-modules -f -v I see: |
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> "No need to generate modprobe.conf |
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> Skipping /etc/modprobe.conf generation (generate-modprobe.conf |
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> doesn't exist)" |
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> True enough, generate-modprobe.conf doesn't exist any longer on |
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> my ~x86 and ~amd64 machines. |
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> I'm running openrc-0.8.2-r1, baselayout-2.0.3, and module-init-tools- |
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> 3.16-r1. |
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> Which HOWTO do I need to read to get myself up-to-date :) |
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> Many thanks for any clues. |
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Have a look at: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml |
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It explains how to get your modules configured so that get loaded at start up. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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