On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Quy NGUYEN DAI wrote: > On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 08:55:49 -0800 (PST), Hardy Merrill > <hmerrill123@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > - create file /etc/rc.modules with these lines: > > #!/bin/bash > > modprobe nvidia > > - chmod 755 /etc/rc.modules > > Why not put this command in /etc/rc.d/rc.local ? Gregory Gulik pointed out that this isn't necessary in this case at all, but the reason for using rc.modules for this is that rc.modules is invoked early in the init process but rc.local is invoked last. So if you have startup scripts that expect certain modules to be loaded and you need to load them by hand, rc.modules is the palce to do it. For example, if you did need the nvidia module preloaded to run X, you wouldn't be able to run rhgb if the module didn't get loaded before the initscripts ran. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
