Greetings.

I just got a new webcam which requires the pwc kernel module. I added the
appropriate options to /etc/modules.conf:

options pwc size=sif fps=5

and then loaded the module with modprobe. Fine; everything works great.
However, I need to redo the modprobe manually with every reboot.

Which configuration file do I need to modify to get Linux to automatically
load the pwc module every time it starts up? Is this something I have to
set in the bootloader (in my case, grub)?

Regards,
Tristan

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In comp.os.linux.misc Tristan Miller <psychonaut@nothingisreal.com> wrote:
Not knowing which distribution are you using it's quite difficult
to say, check in /etc/rc.d/ if there is something that looks like
'local' or 'modules'.

Davide


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So anyway, it was like, 14:40 CET Jan 27 2004, you know? Oh, and, yeah,
Tristan Miller was all like, "Dude,

/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-*
/etc/modules.autoload

(the latter, if it exists, is probably a symlink to the relevant file
in /etc/modules.autoload.d)

Or if you're using devfs you can set it up to be dynamically loaded
whenever something tries to access the device it creates.

hth.

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Davide Bianchi wrote:

probably a SuSE distro when asked in this group, try adding to
/etc/init.d/boot.local

Greetings
P.J.

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Greetings.

In article <o57ie1-0vt.ln1@news.smilfinken.net>, Johan Lindquist wrote:
No such files/directory in /etc... in fact, nowhere in the /etc hierarchy is
there any file with the pattern *autoload*.

Regards,
Tristan

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Greetings.

In article <bv5q53$obao3$2@ID-18487.news.uni-berlin.de>, Davide Bianchi
wrote:
SuSE 9.0... there is a file /etc/init.d/boot.loadmodules, but it doesn't
seem to do anything on its own (it tests a command-line parameter).
Moreover there is no other script in /etc/init.d or /etc which calls
boot.loadmodules.

I could just add the modprobe command to /etc/init.d/boot.local as another
poster suggested, but I suspect that the presence of this boot.loadmodules
script means that there is supposed to be a more "correct" way of doing it.

Here's the script contents, FWIW (posted here for purposes of criticism and
review, of course):

#! /bin/sh
#
# Copyright (c) 2002 SuSE Linux AG, Nuernberg, Germany. All rights reserved.
#
# File: /etc/init.d/boot.loadmodules
# Author: Jiri Srain <jsrain@suse.cz>
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: boot.loadmodules
# Required-Start: boot.localfs
# X-UnitedLinux-Should-Start:
# Required-Stop:
# Default-Start: B
# Default-Stop:
# Description: load modules required to be loaded in specific order
### END INIT INFO

.. /etc/rc.status

rc_reset

case "$1" in
start|restart)
# Read variable for sysconfig and load all mentioned modules
echo Loading required kernel modules
. /etc/sysconfig/kernel
for I in $MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT ; do
modprobe $I;
done
rc_status -v1 -r
;;
stop)
rc_failed 3
rc_status -v
;;
status)
rc_failed 4
rc_status -v
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart}"
exit 1
;;
esac

rc_exit

I can't find any other references to this MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT variable
anywhere in /etc or /etc/init.d either.

Regards,
Tristan

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In comp.os.linux.misc Tristan Miller <psychonaut@nothingisreal.com> wrote:
That can be 'start' or 'stop', they are send automatically during
boot/shutdown.

So, the list of modules should be defined in /etc/sysconfig/kernel
in a variable called $MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT, but nothing stop you
to just add the insmod command at the end of this script.

Ok, it sucks, but probably it works.

Davide

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So anyway, it was like, 18:31 CET Jan 27 2004, you know? Oh, and, yeah,
Tristan Miller was all like, "Dude,
I thought that was a kernel thing, not a distribution thing. Sorry.

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On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 18:38:43 +0100
Tristan Miller <psychonaut@nothingisreal.com> wrote:

That is what you want to change. You don't need to, and really should
not, change the script. Have you tried looking in YaST in the Editor
for sysconfig? You should be able to edit the /etc/sysconfig files
yourself, but YaST is easier . . . :-)


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Greetings.

In article <bv68rl$ojiva$2@ID-18487.news.uni-berlin.de>, Davide Bianchi
wrote:
Ah... indeed, there it is. Thanks for pointing out where this variable was
defined!

Regards,
Tristan

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|I just got a new webcam which requires the pwc kernel module. I added the
|appropriate options to /etc/modules.conf:
|
|options pwc size=sif fps=5
|
|and then loaded the module with modprobe. Fine; everything works great.
|However, I need to redo the modprobe manually with every reboot.
|
|Which configuration file do I need to modify to get Linux to automatically
|load the pwc module every time it starts up? Is this something I have to
|set in the bootloader (in my case, grub)?

If there is a device that is referenced when you access your webcam then
you can create an alias from the device to the module. For example
here's what I use to load bttv:

alias char-major-81-0 bttv
options bttv pll=1 radio=1 card=2

Char device 81,0 is /dev/video0. Whenever the tuner is activated, say by
running a tuner app, it gets automatically loaded.
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