[gentoo-user] update-modules obsolete?

[gentoo-user] update-modules obsolete?

[walt]

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.

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.

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:

"No need to generate modprobe.conf
 Skipping /etc/modprobe.conf generation (generate-modprobe.conf
 doesn't exist)"

True enough, generate-modprobe.conf doesn't exist any longer on
my ~x86 and ~amd64 machines.

I'm running openrc-0.8.2-r1, baselayout-2.0.3, and module-init-tools-
3.16-r1.

Which HOWTO do I need to read to get myself up-to-date :)

Many thanks for any clues.

Re: [gentoo-user] update-modules obsolete?

[Mick]

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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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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:
> 
> "No need to generate modprobe.conf
>  Skipping /etc/modprobe.conf generation (generate-modprobe.conf
>  doesn't exist)"
> 
> True enough, generate-modprobe.conf doesn't exist any longer on
> my ~x86 and ~amd64 machines.
> 
> I'm running openrc-0.8.2-r1, baselayout-2.0.3, and module-init-tools-
> 3.16-r1.
> 
> Which HOWTO do I need to read to get myself up-to-date :)
> 
> 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.
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Regards,
Mick

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[gentoo-user] Re: update-modules obsolete?

[walt]

On 06/19/2011 02:39 PM, Mick wrote:

> 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.

Thanks Mick, I actually did follow those instructions before I posted.

The vital step I omitted was to turn off the machine(s) in disgust and
go to bed.  Today when I booted the gentoo guest the vboxvideo module
was loaded automagically, just the way it should be.

There truly are computer gremlins who get bored with one machine and
migrate overnight to plague other machines.  Dale knows I'm right...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: update-modules obsolete?

[Dale]

walt wrote:
> On 06/19/2011 02:39 PM, Mick wrote:
>
>    
>> 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.
>>      
> Thanks Mick, I actually did follow those instructions before I posted.
>
> The vital step I omitted was to turn off the machine(s) in disgust and
> go to bed.  Today when I booted the gentoo guest the vboxvideo module
> was loaded automagically, just the way it should be.
>
> There truly are computer gremlins who get bored with one machine and
> migrate overnight to plague other machines.  Dale knows I'm right...
>
>    

Yea, I have a 3 lb mini sledge hammer.  I sometimes put it right beside 
my puter and give it a evil look with the one good eye I got.  If that 
don't work, I ask on here.  o_O   If that don't work, I put the hammer 
to work.  So far, the hammer has been just a threat.  Thank goodness for 
this list.  ;-)   Now if you don't have a hammer, here you go:

http://www.studentfreestuff.com/beat_up_the_pc.php

Have fun !!!

Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: update-modules obsolete?

[Joost Roeleveld]

On Monday 20 June 2011 18:02:54 Dale wrote:
> Yea, I have a 3 lb mini sledge hammer.  I sometimes put it right beside
> my puter and give it a evil look with the one good eye I got.  If that
> don't work, I ask on here.  o_O   If that don't work, I put the hammer
> to work.  So far, the hammer has been just a threat.  Thank goodness for
> this list.  ;-)   Now if you don't have a hammer, here you go:
> 
> http://www.studentfreestuff.com/beat_up_the_pc.php
> 
> Have fun !!!
> 
> Dale
> 
> :-)  :-)

Better to show this video to the computer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbcMOR-9Lms

:)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: update-modules obsolete?

[Dale]

Joost Roeleveld wrote:
> On Monday 20 June 2011 18:02:54 Dale wrote:
>    
>> Yea, I have a 3 lb mini sledge hammer.  I sometimes put it right beside
>> my puter and give it a evil look with the one good eye I got.  If that
>> don't work, I ask on here.  o_O   If that don't work, I put the hammer
>> to work.  So far, the hammer has been just a threat.  Thank goodness for
>> this list.  ;-)   Now if you don't have a hammer, here you go:
>>
>> http://www.studentfreestuff.com/beat_up_the_pc.php
>>
>> Have fun !!!
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-)
>>      
> Better to show this video to the computer:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbcMOR-9Lms
>
> :)
>
>    

Oh the geeky guy looked like he had windoze.  He was plenty pissed at 
the end.  Can a person act that mad?  It had to be real.

lol

Dale

:-)   :-)