Check the man page for : mkinitrd I replace the standard initrd file whenever a new kernel comes out for two reasons. The first is that i have an nVidia video card, and I want to use the binary driver, and the second is to automatically load the BTTV module at boot. I can't remember for sure because I wrote a shell script to rebuild everything, but if I remember correctly you add : --with-module=bttv to the mkinitrd command line. There may be another way, but that way works for sure, and ensures that if you have a usb web cam, it doesn't take /dev/video0. ;-) Good luck On Tue, 2005-12-04 at 01:44 -0600, kwhiskers wrote: > Another idea. > > I'm not busting my head over this anymore. Don't have any great ideas > anyway. Sorry. Need input from others. > > But: Why don't you post the entire dmesg output listing, not the one > you get after modprobe, but what you get when you first turn your > computer on and the card doesn't load, as you say. There should be > some funny message there, like where it tries to load and then > doesn't, or something. The card is on a pci slot and whether the > device is created by udev or not, there must be some kind of system > acknowledgement of it's presence. Maybe there's a clue in the listing? > > On Apr 12, 2005 1:35 AM, kwhiskers <kwhiskers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: