module autoloading questions

[Aurisor]

I'm running gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.5-r1. Anyways, today I ran a typical emerge -pDuv world, and, among other things, it upgraded baselayout. I don't know if that's significant or not. However, upon my next reboot, I found that the nvidia kernel module was no longer getting automatically loaded.

Now, I don't really know much about the module loading process. I know that you can explicitly load modules by putting their name into /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.whatever. I surmise that module autoloading is handled by hotplug...it basically just scans whatever modules you have compiled for your current kernel and probes the hardware, installing the appropriate ones, right?

Anyways, if someone could just explain a bit more about this topic, I'd appreciated it...I'm still kind of hazy about the whole thing. Also, if anyone has any idea why the nvidia module is no longer autoloading, that'd be great.

Thanks.

[tomek32]

I'm not sure if hotplug or X loads it, but check /var/log/XFree86.0.log to see maybe why it failed.

[thing_q3]

I just upgraded from baselayout-1.8.12 to baselayout-1.9.4 (and this was the only upgrade i did today), and on next reboot my alsa modules and the nvidia module aren't getting loaded. i promptly downgraded back to the old version, but that hasn't helped any... anyone else have this problem and figured out what happened?
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[cylamanae]

Hi I had the same problem. The only thing that I did was update my nvidia drivers. I am able to load the nvidia kernel by editing /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.4 and /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6. It would not load on either kernel. I hope we find out what caused the problem. I am still goin through my logs I might find out what changes I did but I really doubt I will find any thing.