HOWTO: load up 3rd party kernel modules at boot-up
Dotan Cohen
dotancohen at gmail.com
Mon May 30 22:26:36 UTC 2005
On 5/26/05, Florin Andrei <florin at andrei.myip.org> wrote:
> Have a look at this bug report and its resolution:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=123927
>
> The idea is that in the upcoming Fedora Core 4 there will be an
> "official" way to load up arbitrary kernel modules when the system boots
> up - simply create a *.modules file in /etc/sysconfig/modules and make
> it executable. Whatever you put into that file will be executed when the
> system boots up.
>
> For example, you probably noticed that the PC speaker does not work
> (it's a bug reported very long time ago that was never fixed). You can
> patch that bug with a simple script in the /etc/sysconfig/modules
> directory, called pcspeaker.modules, with the following content:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> /sbin/modprobe pcspkr
>
> Don't forget to do this after creating the file:
>
> chmod +x /etc/sysconfig/modules/pcspeaker.modules
>
> Reboot, then enjoy your PC speaker. ;-)
>
> I tested this method with FC4 test 3 and it works fine.
> It does not work with FC3 since the supporting bits are not in place.
>
> --
> Florin Andrei
Having the PC speaker not work isn't a bug- it's a feature!
This isn't windows, so why should we reboot? I'm pretty sure that
there's something that you can restart without rebooting. And anyway,
there IS a 'fix' to this for FC3, I just don't remember it at the
moment. Google probably does. As one who cut the wire to the PC
speaker 3 operating systems ago, I never cared to 'fix' it.
Dotan Cohen
http://Song-Lirics.com/
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