From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QYQAu-0001iW-TD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 22:09:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EA13B1C128 for ; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 22:08:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB82C1C0A0 for ; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 21:39:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwj40 with SMTP id 40so3669554wwj.10 for ; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 14:39:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent :references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=urtj2L2BAQq96lVY6wErhBlGd+POuUH5jMYf9MXgKbE=; b=WX2sEwN0kS7hU05xTJUCjpTmIDSIe6Br29PwA4JObOQpD18SVOG3wHDjBmRMTGG3Fx vkJ8WOAzWRiUuHshvviZBff9rKG/1yClvxbc4U3dnJObUOzVPhtcp9M0Sk5IHmGNIgkT c/j2r5XLnCRBBrQbEwSI4RJqe58vSgN3efiDc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=F3DU926NIEu6Kpprp679FWkCvESRWeDjnIi/RFP+/TQSTC8OQf7gsAagZov110OBp+ lUVREglK9HBt6WAd74lC4FYpxjf2/1MPe04CYoPHQtqFzhQtOLT/hVz63GkGePOc5vIf vge74ML5Ua1qxhzv/NX+TXrFByg49FUJKBLLA= Received: by 10.216.122.10 with SMTP id s10mr1255135weh.34.1308519544889; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 14:39:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h43sm2569324wes.11.2011.06.19.14.38.58 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 19 Jun 2011 14:39:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] update-modules obsolete? Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 22:39:28 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.38-gentoo-r6; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1609725.XhhMKl3ScA"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201106192239.41102.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 4eee86b98f54cd19b2718b1552cae2d6 --nextPart1609725.XhhMKl3ScA Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sunday 19 Jun 2011 22:06:12 walt wrote: > For some reason I've never before had to fool with update-modules > because all my needed kernel modules just load by magic when I boot. >=20 > Now I'm fiddling with a virtualbox gentoo guest on a gentoo host, > and the vboxvideo kernel module is not loading 'by magic' in the > guest machine. >=20 > So, how to do it? When I edit /etc/conf.d/modules to include the > vboxvideo module and run update-modules -f -v I see: >=20 > "No need to generate modprobe.conf > Skipping /etc/modprobe.conf generation (generate-modprobe.conf > doesn't exist)" >=20 > True enough, generate-modprobe.conf doesn't exist any longer on > my ~x86 and ~amd64 machines. >=20 > I'm running openrc-0.8.2-r1, baselayout-2.0.3, and module-init-tools- > 3.16-r1. >=20 > Which HOWTO do I need to read to get myself up-to-date :) >=20 > Many thanks for any clues. Have a look at: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml It explains how to get your modules configured so that get loaded at start = up. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1609725.XhhMKl3ScA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk3+bJwACgkQVTDTR3kpaLaQzACgpvN0+MDRYrcfrYPxN7p7vCGW GVUAoMY9D9sv8WKKp9E4aCw8mCN3bVAa =L0m3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1609725.XhhMKl3ScA--