From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 19 05:37:10 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C46B1106566C for ; Mon, 19 Dec 2011 05:37:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from darcsis@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B7D38FC15 for ; Mon, 19 Dec 2011 05:37:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iadj38 with SMTP id j38so5828233iad.13 for ; Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:37:10 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:organization:references:user-agent :x-envelope-to:mail-followup-to:date:message-id:mime-version :content-type; bh=LjHmEo+u6NMzHvSxEPCfMLya3tcv2UB1yOlYAacffTk=; b=GvETSSQdFsWnHeQn9yYH6TcQ4YJ4GUoL7Op9Sr7/hnBdIoeFLcaHTUgTp7s1BJS77d 0GTt3ouaVFoBtCxCf533a7UcxshTwX4LpvuGwBT2/jvfO0M6iAvP0QBaIlj1taWSqSBW Cmdh41Lr2es211k+y8paPp0SNT0W7xhVbKcKQ= Received: by 10.50.184.137 with SMTP id eu9mr25839753igc.9.1324273029903; Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:37:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost ([123.117.59.112]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id wp7sm30150013igc.6.2011.12.18.21.37.04 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:37:08 -0800 (PST) From: darcsis@gmail.com (Denise H. G.) To: tomdean@speakeasy.org In-Reply-To: <1324176590.3799.131.camel@asus> (Thomas D. Dean's message of "Sat, 17 Dec 2011 18:49:50 -0800") Organization: Pluto The Planet References: <1324143744.3799.122.camel@asus> <87fwgjey17.fsf@pluton.xbsd.name> <1324176590.3799.131.camel@asus> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (berkeley-unix) X-Envelope-To: tomdean@speakeasy.org Mail-Followup-To: tomdean@speakeasy.org, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:36:58 +0800 Message-ID: <87aa6p86md.fsf@pluton.xbsd.name> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot Loader Conf X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 05:37:10 -0000 On 2011/12/18 at 10:49, "Thomas D. Dean" wrote: > > On Sun, 2011-12-18 at 04:36 +0800, Denise H. G. wrote: >> >> Try to load them using kldload(8) and see what it says. You have to >> provide more details, I think. > > I am sorry, I thought that was obvious from my original post. > > Yes, kldload works. kldload finds the modules located as I indicated in > my original post. > > I want the modules to be loaded at boot time not after login. > > It appears the loader is not looking at /boot/loader.conf. There was > some talk of moving this functionality (at least in part) to the rc.d > functionality. Has some of that started? > > tomdean nvidia.ko is loaded automatically on startup on my machine. I guess there are some problems with your configuration? Or you can boot verbosely to see what dmesg says. > > > > ................ -- The wrong quarterback is the one that's in there.