On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 23:02 +0200, Eric Tanguy wrote: > Le lundi 18 juillet 2005 �9:25 +0100, Paul Howarth a �it : > > On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 19:55 +0200, Eric Tanguy wrote: > > > Le lundi 18 juillet 2005 �2:16 +0100, Paul Howarth a �it : > > > > Timothy Murphy wrote: > > > > > Paul Howarth wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >>In FC4 you can create a script with a name ending in ".modules" > > > > >>in /etc/sysconfig/modules and that will get run at around the same time > > > > >>that rc.modules would be run. This is the "approved" may of doing this > > > > >>now. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Is this preferable to writing a modprobe command in rc.local ? > > > > > Is rc.local frowned on now? > > > > > > > > Depends when you want the module loaded. rc.local is executed right at > > > > the end of the boot process, but rc.modules or > > > > /etc/sysconfig/modules/*.modules is much earlier. If you need your > > > > module loading for some services to start, rc.local will be too late. > > > > > > > > Paul. > > > > > > > Ok what is the syntax of these *.modules files (ie if i want to load a > > > module named spca5xx i have just to add it in this file) ? > > > > It's a shell script, so you want something like: > > > > modprobe spca5xx > > > > > You say that /etc/sysconfig/modules/*.modules is much earlier but when ? > > > > Look at /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit - it's at around line 218. > > > > It's just after the: > > > > Initializing hardware... storage network audio done. > > > > Paul. > > -- > > Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > So i tried it but i have always the same problem : the system hangs at > boot if the usb webcam is plugged in and if i unplugge it the system > goes up. But i can't figure where the problem come from. If I plug the > usb webcam after login all is fine, the driver is loaded and the webcam > is useable. Maybe it can be that this driver try to make a > device /dev/video1 (/dev/video0 is for my tvcard) but it is not > compliant to udev. Maybe i have to had something /etc/modrpobe.conf > (like alias char-major-81 bttv for tv card). Maybe something else but i > don't know ... eric - i think that's exactly what you need to do. mine works fine on boot, and i find this in modprobe.conf: alias char-major-81 bttv john
