On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 22:38, Duncan wrote: > On Fri 04 Jul 2003 19:52, Adam Williamson posted as excerpted below: > > > still seem to have this devfsd problem that people are experiencing to > > various degrees. loop, nvidia, usbmouse and probably some others I don't > > know about are not loaded on boot. > > > > So to boot up I have to pick my kernel, do Alt-SysRq-E when module > > dependencies freeze, login to the console, modprobe nvidia and usbmouse, > > restart the xfs service and restart the dm service. This is not optimal. > > > > :) > > Sounds like that is a bit of an understatement. At least it boots! <g> > > FWIW.. My system is a bit different. I'm running 2.4.21 self-compiled from > kernel.org. As such, I have boot-required modules like reiserfs (on all my > partitions except for swap, naturally, and legacy vfat) built-in, so don't > need or have an initrd to worry about. > > That said, with devfsd -30mdk here, no serious issues. I don't have usbmouse > (still use ps2, since I have the port and it's less complicated than tracking > USB for such a critical input device), but I have nvidia supporting two > monitors on my AGP GForce2 (svirge on the PCI supporting a third monitor). I > originally didn't load it on boot, but at X start (I boot init 3 by default > and start X/KDE from my user login with the kde command from BASH). However, > I'm assuming due to the binary portion being compiled with a different gcc, > that didn't work after I upgraded to kernel 2.4.21. It does, however, work > if I load nvidia from /etc/modules at boot, which I am doing now. I have > loopback modulized, but haven't used it recently so don't know whether it > works or not. > > Anyway, while several have said it's a devfsd issue, I'm not sure that's > entirely the case, as it doesn't seem to be affecting me here, with a > standard kernel.org kernel, and no initrd. If it IS specifically a devfsd > issue, the kernel and/or initrd apparently triggers it.
But you maybe *do* have the bug. the nvidia module should load if you have this line in /etc/modules.conf: alias /dev/nvidia* nvidia but for many of us, it doesn't. We have to load it manually or put it in /etc/modules. what about you? -- adamw
