On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 09:48, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Peter wrote:
>
> > Am Mi, den 10.11.2004 schrieb Matthew Saltzman um 15:50:
> > > BTW, a better place for module insertion is /etc/rc.modules. That script
> > > is run early in the boot process rather than late, so modules that need to
> > > be loaded in order for initialization to run will be already there.
> >
> > Are you shure about the name? Couldn't find it.
>
> In FC2, at least, you'll find the following lines in /etc/rc.sysinit (I
> have no reason to suspect that things have changed in FC3):
>
> # Load modules (for backward compatibility with VARs)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> if [ -f /etc/rc.modules ]; then
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> /etc/rc.modules
>
> The file doesn't exist by default, but if you create it, it will get run.
>
> --
> Matthew Saltzman
>
This says that if that file exists it should get run, but is only there
for compatibility with certain vendors and customized software.
The FC2 install hardly ever needs it, and I surely don't with my nvidia
driver.
The xorg.conf file tells X to load the module so it does not need to be
loaded at anytime other than when X starts.
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