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. -- Regards, Mick
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