From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 8 15:01:17 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7179A10656C3 for ; Tue, 8 Jul 2008 15:01:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david.gurvich@verizon.net) Received: from vms042pub.verizon.net (vms042pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 515688FC20 for ; Tue, 8 Jul 2008 15:01:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david.gurvich@verizon.net) Received: from localhost ([71.249.92.114]) by vms042.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPA id <0K3P001EO0DHENQ2@vms042.mailsrvcs.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:00:54 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:00:52 -0400 From: David Gurvich In-reply-to: To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <20080708110052.7702950b@verizon.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.4.0 (GTK+ 2.12.10; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: Subject: Re: difference between loading kernel module during boot and after boot manually? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:01:17 -0000 I don't know what the difference is, but there is one. I have a system that automatically reboots if nvidia is added to /boot/loader.conf on FreeBSD7. If the module is loaded from the loader prompt the system boots and xorg works. I now use solaris on that system as FreeBSD had all sorts of issues, but I recall adding a kldload statement to a startup script.