Re: [gentoo-user] Modules Not Autoloading

[Drew Tomlinson]

John covici wrote:
> on Thursday 11/27/2008 Dale(rdalek1967@×××××.com) wrote
>  > Drew Tomlinson wrote:
>  > > Modules are not autoloading since initial install with gentoo-sources
>  > > 2.6.25.  I have since upgraded to kernel 2.6.27 but the issue
>  > > persists.  In my previous Gentoo install and other Gentoo installs,
>  > > autoloading modules worked.  I do not know why they are not loading in
>  > > this case.
>  > >
>  > > I have the following:
>  > >
>  > > mythfe01 mythtv # cat /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 abituguru
>  > > ftdi_sio
>  > > lirc_i2c
>  > >
>  > > Yet on reboot, these modules don't load.  Loading manually works fine:
>  > >
>  > > mythfe01 mythtv # modprobe abituguru
>  > > mythfe01 mythtv # modprobe ftdi_sio
>  > > mythfe01 mythtv # modprobe lirc_i2c
>  > >
>  > > Can anyone tell me where my error may be?
>
>  >
>  > I think I read something after one of my upgrades that said loading
>  > modules was changing.  If you keep your logs, check the messages that
>  > appear when portage installs a package.  I only use nvidia here as a
>  > module so I didn't pay much attention after the reboot worked.
>  >
>  > I also checked emerge.log but I didn't recognize the package.  Maybe
>  > this will help tho.
>
> If you are using  base layout 2.x then the name has changed along with
> a number of other things -- there is a migration guide at
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml
>
> Hope this helps.
>

Yes, I am using base layout 2.  This nudge is what I needed.

Thanks for all the replies!

Drew


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