autoload of kernel modules: how?

[Eric Tanguy]

Le lundi 18 juillet 2005 à 19:25 +0100, Paul Howarth a écrit :
> On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 19:55 +0200, Eric Tanguy wrote:
> > Le lundi 18 juillet 2005 à 12:16 +0100, Paul Howarth a écrit :
> > > 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 at city-fan.org>
> 
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 ...
Help needed if it is possible !

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