From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 18 08:24:19 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 99955106566B for ; Sun, 18 Dec 2011 08:24:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gljennjohn@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-ee0-f54.google.com (mail-ee0-f54.google.com [74.125.83.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 287EB8FC12 for ; Sun, 18 Dec 2011 08:24:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eekc50 with SMTP id c50so5179808eek.13 for ; Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:24:17 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:reply-to :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=QBpFuG2MKJ3qJIr2buRdY/O8NptNBrL8fEemgtG7MNE=; b=nWwjbTQcYfwdsySyuPhGbzY1YcXxp8sqhQOaWYmvZLAfCa3P3YQI68QhIFPfKbBMXH /cdzSCB+d0/FpiBCqF72LFwjmr5r0vYpkbBppBWNzklVhlPd1tGFAglF8oVHEmq7h7d2 FcjvklUQFcdwGCnHZLt04EA+3lSUMqT0O7c+A= Received: by 10.14.18.16 with SMTP id k16mr2306839eek.15.1324196657825; Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:24:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from ernst.jennejohn.org (p578E0D6F.dip.t-dialin.net. [87.142.13.111]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q28sm26647805eea.6.2011.12.18.00.24.16 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:24:17 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 09:24:14 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn To: tomdean@speakeasy.org Message-ID: <20111218092414.39c4e587@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <1324176590.3799.131.camel@asus> References: <1324143744.3799.122.camel@asus> <87fwgjey17.fsf@pluton.xbsd.name> <1324176590.3799.131.camel@asus> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot Loader Conf X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: gljennjohn@googlemail.com List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 08:24:19 -0000 On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 18:49:50 -0800 "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? > I load it in /etc/rc.local: /sbin/kldload /boot/modules/nvidia.ko -- Gary Jennejohn